Brian Lehrer hosts a live taping of The Brian Lehrer Show entitled Teddy, Barack, and John: Advice to the Next President at the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival with panelists Joshua Hawley, Rep. Jane Harman, David Kennedy, and John Podesta.
Bio
Jane Harman
Jane Lakes Harman was born June 28, 1945 and is a seven-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 36th District of California.
She attended Los Angeles public schools, Smith College, and Harvard Law School. On November 7, 2006, she was reelected to the 110th Congress, defeating Republican challenger Brian Gibson.
Harman is both a Blue Dog Democrat and a member of the New Democrat Coalition. She previously represented the district from 1993 to 1999 before leaving Congress to enter the 1998 California gubernatorial race.
After losing to future Governor Gray Davis, she briefly taught public policy and international relations at UCLA before reclaiming her congressional seat in the 2000 election.
Joshua Hawley
Joshua Hawley is a judicial clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the author of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness. He also served as a judicial clerk to Judge Michael W. McConnell of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
A former teaching fellow at St. Paul's School in London, he was president of the Federalist Society at Yale Law School. He graduated from Stanford University.
David M. Kennedy
David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University, where he teaches 20th-century U.S. history, American political and social thought, American foreign policy, American literature, and the comparative development of democracy in Europe and America.
A scholar whose work integrates economic and cultural analysis with social and political history, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his book Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. His other books include Over Here: The First World War and American Society, The American People in the Depression, and Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger.
He is a co-author of the textbook The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, now in its 13th edition.
Brian Lehrer
Brian Lehrer is a radio talk show host on New York City's public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour program, The Brian Lehrer Show, features interviews with newsmakers and experts about current events and social issues. Lehrer was formerly an anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Networks, and has been in broadcast journalism for more than 20 years.
Lehrer obtained B.A.'s in Music and Mass Communications from the State University of New York at Albany. He holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and a masters degree in Journalism from Ohio State University.
John Podesta
John Podesta is the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress and visiting professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Podesta served as chief of staff to President William J. Clinton from October 1998 until January 2001 and was at that time responsible for directing, managing, and overseeing all policy development, daily operations, Congressional relations, and staff activities of the White House.
He coordinated the work of cabinet agencies with a particular emphasis on the development of federal budget and tax policy and served in the President's Cabinet and as a principal on the National Security Council.
Podesta has also held a number of positions on Capitol Hill, including counselor to Democratic Leader Senator Thomas A. Daschle; chief counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee; chief minority counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks Security and Terrorism and Regulatory Reform; and counsel on the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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