Distributed March 3, 2003
For Immediate Release

News Service Contact: Mary Jo Curtis

John Hazen White Sr. Lecture

Former Sen. Gary Hart to speak on “Restoration of the Republic”

Former senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart will speak on “Restoration of the Republic” Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. This John Hazen White Sr. Lecture, sponsored by the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, is free and open to the public.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Former senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart will give a John Hazen White Sr. Lecture on Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching on The College Green. He will speak on “Restoration of the Republic.”

Hart served as Colorado’s U.S. senator from 1975 to 1987 and ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1984. He has recently been in the news for his strong criticism of the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq, and several Democratic leaders have urged him to make another run for the presidency in 2004.

Sen. Gary Hart
Former Colorado senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart will deliver a John Hazen White Sr. Lecture, “Restoration of the Republic,” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
[Photo courtesy of the Denver Post]

Since retiring from the Senate, Hart has remained active in public life, serving as the co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21^st Century. This commission performed the most comprehensive review of national security since 1947; it predicted the terrorist attacks on America and proposed a sweeping overhaul of U.S. national security structures and policies. Currently Hart is senior counsel to Coudert Brothers, a multinational law firm with offices in 19 countries. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University and graduate law and divinity degrees from Yale University. He has been a visiting lecturer at Oxford, Yale and the University of California.

The John Hazen White Sr. Lecture Series, endowed by a local businessman and sponsored by the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown University, features nationally prominent experts on political science, public opinion and public policy. The lecture is free and open to the community. For more information, call (401) 863-2201.

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