2011 Presidential Lecture Series at Dole Institute of Politics ends this week
The 2011 Presidential Lecture Series at the Dole Institute of Politics will conclude this week as former institute director Richard Norton Smith speaks about Dwight D. Eisenhower and Woodrow Wilson.
Smith will argue at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday that Eisenhower, who grew up in Kansas, belongs as one of his choices for a 20th century Mount Rushmore. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the institute, Smith will speak about his final choice, Wilson.
Smith, the institute’s first permanent director, spoke in recent weeks in front of overflow crowds about his first two selections for the hypothetical monument, Ronald Reagan and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The events this week at the institute, 2350 Petefish Drive, are free and open to the public.
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