Student volunteers. Please turn off your cell phones. And now, please join me in welcoming senior associate director dr. Barbara ballard. [ applause ] thank you very much. Ill say good evening and welcome to the Dole Institute of politics. For the Third Program of the 2020 president ial lecture series. Tonights guest is professor of communications, robert roland. We would like to thank our cosponsors, the university of Kansas Department of Communication Studies, the department of history, and the department of political science. This evenings interview will be conducted by Dole Institute associate director audrey coleman. Joining us tonight as an honored guest is ron marks. Hes our spring 2020 fellow. Hes a former Senior Analyst for the cia and intelligence expert and intelligence counsel to Senate Majority leaders robert dole and trent lott. Would you stand, please . [ applause ] thank you. This years president ial lecture series was created and developed by dr. Robert roland. He is a
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Recognized in the same class for eloquence as Franklin Delano roosevelt, only slightly behind abraham lincoln. And thats not such a bad thing, to only be slightly behind abraham. He used his words win two overwhelming president ial victories, and his words helped what has been called by many authors the age of reagan. We have four panelists today and im going to introduce them now now and then were simply going to go in order thats listed and and we have agreed that were going to take no than 15 to 16 minutes each, leaving some time discussion at the end. I know there very distinguished scholars in the room and we all look forward to that. The first presenter is alison brash from the university of wisconsin. The world has a stage. Reagans Foreign Policy rhetoric and the invocation of peace. And shes talking about Research Done as part of her Outstanding New book, rand fowler of Abilene Christian university is going to talk about the great communicator and the great satan revisiting rea
Kansas. What a great place to. Reassess Ronald Reagans rhetorical legacy. And weve got such great reasons to do that. I think reagan is routinely recognized in the same class for eloquence as Franklin Delano roosevelt, only slightly behind abraham lincoln. And thats not such a bad thing, to only be slightly behind abraham. He used his words win two overwhelming president ial victories, and his words helped what has been called by many authors the age of reagan. We have four panelists today and im going to introduce them now now and then were simply going to go in order thats listed and and we have agreed that were going to take no than 15 to 16 minutes each, leaving some time discussion at the end. I know there very distinguished scholars in the room and we all look forward to that. The first presenter is alison brash from the university of wisconsin. The world has a stage. Reagans Foreign Policy rhetoric and the invocation of peace. And shes talking about Research Done as part of her
Kansas. What a great place to. Reassess Ronald Reagans rhetorical legacy. And weve got such great reasons to do that. I think reagan is routinely recognized in the same class for eloquence as Franklin Delano roosevelt, only slightly behind abraham lincoln. And thats not such a bad thing, to only be slightly behind abraham. He used his words win two overwhelming president ial victories, and his words helped what has been called by many authors the age of reagan. We have four panelists today and im going to introduce them now now and then were simply going to go in order thats listed and and we have agreed that were going to take no than 15 to 16 minutes each, leaving some time discussion at the end. I know there very distinguished scholars in the room and we all look forward to that. The first presenter is alison brash from the university of wisconsin. The world has a stage. Reagans Foreign Policy rhetoric and the invocation of peace. And shes talking about Research Done as part of her