Politics, Policy and the Reality of Leadership
Speaker:
Gwen Ifill
31 Mar 2011
7:30 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Gwen Ifill is moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for The PBS Newshour. She is also the author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Ifill reports on a wide range of issues, from foreign affairs to U.S. politics and policies, interviewing national and international newsmakers. She has covered six presidential campaigns and moderated the vice presidential debates in 2004 and 2008. Before joining PBS, she worked as the chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC News and covered the White House and politics for The New York Times. The Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics and part of the Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Celebration.
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This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.