Blair Center Gathers Scholars To Talk On Clinton Legacy

The Morning News/NWAonline.net ^ | Wed, May 29, 2002 | Johnathon Williams

[fella]

Blair Center Gathers Scholars To Talk On Clinton Legacy Wed, May 29, 2002

12 participants coming from all over country

By Johnathon Williams

The Morning News/NWAonline.net

FAYETTEVILLE -- A University of Arkansas center named for a former UA professor and adviser to President Clinton will honor its namesake with a gathering of scholars next month, university officials announced Friday.

Coming from all over the country, the 12 invited participants will discuss Clinton's legacy at the conference sponsored by the Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society.

"Vantage Points: Perspectives on the Clinton Presidency" runs from June 12 through June 14 on the UA campus.

A public forum is set for 9 to 11:30 a.m. June 14 in Giffels Auditorium. The scholars will discuss questions submitted by people around the country, as well as from the audience.

Seating for the public session is limited. To reserve a seat, contact Todd Shields, the director of the Blair Center, by phone at 575-3356 or by e-mail at tshield@uark.edu by Saturday.

Co-hosting the conference is the Fulbright Center for International Relations.

The Blair Center is named after Diane Blair, a UA professor of political science who died in 2000. Blair is credited with making enormous contributions to both the scholarly and practical sides of politics in Arkansas and the nation.

She worked as an adviser to Clinton during his presidential campaigns.

The center was funded by a $2.5 million congressional appropriation.

In a phone interview Monday, Shields said a conference of scholars from several disciplines seemed especially fitting for the Blair Center's first event.

Blair's work spanned several disciplines. Her participation in Clinton's political campaigns made the subject an obvious choice, he said.

"It fit exactly in Diane's research and scholarly and private interests ... I thought that it would absolutely carry on Diane's legacy. I think she would be very pleased," he said.

Scholars will discuss all aspects of Clinton's legacy, Shields said. They represent interests as diverse as economics, political science, Southern history and foreign policy, he said.

Each scholar will also produce a paper for the conference, Shields said. Those papers will later be combined into a book to be published by the University of Arkansas Press.

Guests invited to the conference:

• Ken Bode, who holds the Knight Chair in Broadcast Journalism at Northwestern University. Bode is the former moderator of PBS' "Washington Week in Review" and was a national political correspondent for NBC News.

• David Brady, the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science and Ethics at Stanford University. Brady has written several books on U.S. elections and public policy.

• Dan Carter, the Education Foundation Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Carter is a historian of Southern and 20th-century history.

• June Teufel Dreyer, professor of political science at the University of Miami. She is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

• Betty Glad, the Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She is the author of "The Psychological Dimensions of War."

• Barry Hannah, a novelist and short-story writer. He received the Award for Literature from the American Institute of Arts and Letters in 1979.

• Darlene Clark Hine, the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University. She has written widely on black history.

• Randall Kenan, a novelist and nonfiction writer. He teaches at the University of Memphis and has won a Guggenheim, a Whiting Writer's Award and the American Academy's Prix de Rome.

• Robert Legvold, a professor of political science at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of Soviet foreign policy.

• Randy • . Roberts, a professor of history at Purdue University. He won the Pat and Ray Browne National Book Award for "John Wayne American."

• Dorothy McBride Stetson, a professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. She is a specialist in the comparative study of women and public policy.

• Randall B. Woods, the John A. Cooper Professor of History at the UA. He is the author of "Fulbright: A Biography," which won the Robert H. Ferrell Prize.

[fella]

No matter what these ivory-tower types think, say or write the rest of us know what Clintons legacy is.

[Semper Paratus]

No matter how hard they try it's still like trying to put a shine on a sneaker.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Maybe if they start writing now (they'll come up with something by the end of the summer).

[fella]

Ha ha ha..... That is good.

[Paul Atreides]

She worked as an adviser to Clinton during his presidential campaigns.

Under the table....keeping abortion legal?

[OldFriend]

Just bring pictures of the WTC, the Pentagon, and that field in Pennsylvania.......nuff said.

[caisson71]

It shouldn't take them long to discuss, impeachment, blowjobs in the oval office, lying in court, disbarment, selling secrets, dismantling our national defenses, etc. It's all a matter of record!

[backhoe]

Like the chains on Marley's Ghost

That "clinton legacy" has been forged...
link...
by link...
by sordid link....

Madison Society - Slick Willy
... THE CLINTON TIME LINE. The Etherzone provides, in one location, all the events
of the Clinton Ongoing Corruption from 1977 through 2000. Read more. ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY:
... And that gets to my second chart, Mr. Speaker, which is the time line.....Up until
1993, Mr. Speaker, under Democrats and Republican Presidents alike, there ...

The Cost of Life (Clinton/Gore Sellout of Security for Campaign Contributions) **FR EXCLUSIVE** #2

-DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON --

---

"Has that clinton "legacy" made you feel safer yet?"
Lest Americans ever forget why the clintons, and all their enablers need to be hectored, hounded, and harried into silence, until "clintonese is only spoken in Hell," look here:

The Holiday *Best* of Bill Clinton & his Friends!

Hodgepodge O' Hillary

-clintonism in one easy lesson--

-"until clintonese is spoken only in Hell!"--

Hillary! and Arafat's wife-

---

clintonscandals:

To find all articles tagged or indexed using clintonscandals, click below:
	click here >>>	clintonscandals	<<< click here
(To view all FR Bump Lists, click here)

Hillary:

To find all articles tagged or indexed using Hillary, click below:
	click here >>>	Hillary	<<< click here
(To view all FR Bump Lists, click here)

Clinton Alumni:

Clinton Alumni: for Clinton Alumni. 

Other Bump Lists at: Free Republic Bump List Register

[tracer]

And their mothers should wash out their mouthes with soap just as soon as this "gathering of scholars" adjourns.....

[steve-b]

Sherwin-Williams doesn't make enough whitewash to cover the Clinton Legacy.

[d14truth]

Interview with Diane Blair - May 4, 2000--PDF

Don't forget about Jim Blair, "Red" Bone, and Hillary's 'cattle futures'.

[d14truth]

Thank you for the 'links'.

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking- I really do get tired of wallowing in their cr@p, but I know a lot of lurkers, and maybe members, may never have seen some of that. It's as damning a collection as I could find. We were very lucky to survive the rule of a bunch of gangsters.

[d14truth]

Not a word in that interview about doing good for ALL of America, just a determination to 'take over' from the Republicans. I guess it should be called a 'BARF ALERT', but it shows what their AGENDA is, "Just win, baby!!!

[cibco]

Will there be a sink display there?

[onedoug]

They got whores in there?

[backhoe]

Punch in a PDF url HERE and you can read PDF files online without a download.

Interview with Diane Blair - May 4, 2000--PDF

Don't forget about Jim Blair, "Red" Bone, and Hillary's 'cattle futures'.

[backhoe]

Excerpt:

---

The whole public record which was my responsibility and he was being attacked brutally on it because Arkansas ranked so low on everything. And they're going to do the same thing to George W. when he runs. You know, "if he's so hot, how come Texas has the highest illiteracy rate," or whatever... I can see it all coming, because I've been there and done that. But in order to do that and everything else, we had the research department, which consisted of Betsy and me and six or seven of the brightest young people I have ever met in my life.... these kids drove, hitchhiked, bicycled in from Minnesota, California, Connecticut, because they really wanted to take their country back from the Republicans. It was idealistic. They were so brilliant, they had to spend twenty hours per day scanning things....

---

[d14truth]

"It was idealistic. They were so brilliant, they had to spend twenty hours per day scanning things...."

Sounds kinda like FReepers. Think we'll ever be described by any of them as 'brilliant'?

[opinionator]

Scheduled to speak: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Bellesiles, Stephen Ambrose, and David Brock