Local Speakers Series 2009
NO tickets required. Free and open to the public.
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Lee Hamilton
talks about his new book Strengthening Congress Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:00 pm Red Room Lee H. Hamilton is Director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University. Established in 1999, the Center is a non-partisan educational institution seeking to improve the public's understanding of Congress and encourage civic engagement. It developed out of Hamilton's recognition during his 34 years in the U.S. House of Representatives that the public should be more familiar with Congress' strengths and weaknesses, and its impact on the lives of ordinary people every day. |
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Hamilton also
serves as President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C. The Wilson Center, the
nation's official memorial to President Woodrow Wilson, is a
pre-eminent intellectual haven where scholars, policy makers
and business leaders engage in a comprehensive and non-partisan
dialogue on public policy issues and their effect on national
and international thought and governance. Prior to becoming Director of The Center on Congress and the Wilson Center, Hamilton served from 1965 to 1999 as a U.S. Representative from Indiana. During his tenure, he was Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Hamilton also was Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and of the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. Hamilton remains an important and active voice on matters of international relations and American national security. He is a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council, and in March 2006 he was named Co-Chairman, along with former Secretary of State James A. Baker, of the Iraq Study Group. This bipartisan panel, created at the urging of Congress, is assessing the situation in Iraq and will make recommendations on U.S. policy options there. Time magazine named him one of its "People who Mattered" in 2004, and Washingtonian magazine included him in its "Washington's Wise Men" list in 2001. Hamilton was born in 1931 in Daytona Beach, FL. His family relocated to Tennessee and then Evansville, IN. He graduated from DePauw University and Indiana University law school, and he studied for a year at Goethe University in Germany. A former high school and college basketball star, he was inducted into the Indiana basketball Hall of Fame in 1982. Before his 1964 election to Congress, he practiced law in Chicago and Columbus, IN. |
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