Amy Bender Webb
Forum: The Making of the (First Celebrity) President: 1960
MICHAEL DUFFY, TIME magazine’s assistant managing editor and Washington bureau chief, will discuss the making of the Kennedy candidacy and campaign. In 1995, Duffy won the Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. He co-wrote 13 cover stories with his TIME colleague Nancy Gibbs in 1996. Duffy won the 1998 Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting as a member of a team covering the campaign-finance scandals. He is the co-author of “Marching in Place: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush” and “The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House. 11am
Panel: 'Let the Word Go Forth': The Rhetoric, Symbols, and Images of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier
Special Roundtable: Miller Center scholars BARBARA PERRY, MARC J. SELVERSTONE, SIDNEY M. MILKIS, and MICHAEL NELSON, will focus on the collaboration between Kennedy and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen that created much of the language and imagery of Kennedy’s New Frontier. 1:30pm
Panel: Let Us Begin: The Forgotten Liberalism of John F. Kennedy
Special Program: Rutgers University Professor DAVID GREENBERG, author of "Nixon's Shadow: History of an Image," will deliver an address on Kennedy's image and rhetoric on the cusp of his new administration and the underappreciated liberal activism of the New Frontier. 3:15pm
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