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Congressional Campaign Update
Mr. Leonard and Mr. Dixon discussed what was going on in the U.S. House races. They also took questions from the audience.
Type: Media
Growing Cynicism Affecting American Politics
Panelists discussed the public cynicism about Congress and the U.S. political process. Topics included the causes of and solutions to public dissatisfaction, as well as the effects of cynicism on the government and the media.
Type: Media
Watergate: Corruption of American Politics
Mr. Moyer talked about the upcoming Discovery Channel series on Watergate and Mr. Osnos talked about an upcoming book on the subject. The first panel consisted of several people who were directly involved in the scandal or the investigation into it. They reflected on their experiences and analyzed the decisions they made during those years. They also discussed questions from the audience and each other.
Type: Media
Campaign 1996
The Kalb Report: Campaign 1996
Type: Media
1996 Congressional Elections
Rep. Frost, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Rep Paxon, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, speculated about which party will control Congress after the 1996 elections.
Type: Media
The Media and the Vietnam War
This symposium, marking the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, described the effects of the Vietnam War on the people and culture of the U.S. Panelists discussed how the media covered the Vietnam War. Mr. Braestrup was Saigon Bureau Chief for the Washington Post during the Vietnam War.
Type: Media
Keeping Presidential Campaigns Clean
Panelists discussed,"Presidential Campaigns: Is It Possible to Keep Them Clean and Relevant?"
Type: Media
Investigating Human Rights Abuses
This panel discussion was part of an international conference on free expression. It focused on media investigation of human rights violations around the world, and especially in Central and South America. They also discussed the dangers and difficulties involved in researching and reporting on abuses of human rights.
Type: Media
Public Figures, Private Lives, and the Press
The Smithsonian Institution and the National Press Club co-sponsored the seventh annual Freedom of the Press program, a forum on the relationship between the media and public figures. Several media and political analysts discussed the extent to which the private lives of political and other public figures should be made available to the general public through the media, and whether the media's interest in politicians' private lives was justified by its relationship to their subsequent performance in office. Following their prepared remarks, the panelists responded to questions from members of…
Type: Media
U.S.-Soviet Relations and the Moscow Summit
Mr. Mandlebaum, Mr. Simes and Mr. Warner discussed the expected issues to be discussed in the upcoming summit between U.S. President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev in Moscow the following week. Issues under examination by the three speakers and brought up in questions from the audience following the prepared remarks included the relationship between the central Soviet government and the Soviet states, the Soviet economy, the START arms control treaty which will be the center of the summit, and U.S. economic assistance for the Soviet Union.
Type: Media