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President’s Forum
The President’s Forum panel, which included a former presidential spokesperson, addressed the future of the nation at Westchester Community College. The event was covered by local journalists including those at News 12. Some of the nation’s leading names in journalism, politics and government assessed the new national leadership during a special current events forum on Sunday, November 12.
United or Divided, One Year Later
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 12, 2017
Forum 2:30 TO 4:30 PM
RECEPTION 4:30 TO 5:30 PM
A year has now passed since the 2016 presidential election. Our distinguished panel of journalists will examine the new administration and Congress— what has been or has not been accomplished. Do we have more unity or more division? What can we expect in the years ahead? There will be opportunity for questions from the audience.
MAX BOOT
Military historian and foreign-policy analyst. The Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Boot is also a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and the Los Angeles Times, a member of USA Today’s Board of Contributors, a columnist for Foreign Policy, and a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and other publications.
ARI FLEISCHER
Former White House Press Secretary & Spokesperson for President George W. Bush, Fox News Contributor, and President of Ari Fleischer Communications. He is the bestselling author of Taking Heat.
RUTH MARCUS
Editorial Board and op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, specializing in American politics and domestic policy. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
DAVID SANGER
Senior Writer and National Security Correspondent for The New York Times. Bestselling author of Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, and The Inheritance. He has been a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.
Moderator
LESTER M. CRYSTAL
Long time Executive Producer of the PBS NewsHour and former President of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
