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THE FIRST 100 DAYS


An intimate, insider’s look at what it takes to set up a White House staff and operate during the first 100 days of a presidential administration with several prominent presidential historians:

Participants included:

Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor for Newsweek magazine and author of The Defining Moment: Franklin Roosevelt and the First Hundred Days

Lou Cannon, biographer of President Ronald Reagan and author of the new book Reagan's Disciple: George W. Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy

Robert Dallek has taught at Columbia, UCLA, Oxford and Boston University. He is the author of several presidential biographies, including Lyndon Johnson: Lone Star Rising and Lyndon Johnson: Flawed Giant.

Richard Reeves, lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and biographer of the John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan presidencies.