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W.
Hodding Carter |
W. Hodding
Carter
Professor of Public Policy and Leadership, UNC-Chapel Hill and former
Assistant Secretary of State
The Riley Institute
at Furman welcomed W. Hodding Carter to Furman University on October
28, 2009. He delivered an address, "Democracy Challenged: How
Big Money in Politics Influences Who Runs for Office, Who Wins,
and What They Do Once Elected” on
Wednesday October 28, 2009 at 7 p.m. in Shaw Hall, Melvin and Dollie
Younts Conference Center.
The address
was followed by a panel discussion with Glen Halva-Neubauer, Ph.D.
and C. Danielle Vinson, Ph.D., professors of the Department of Political
Science at Furman, and moderated by Thomas Kazee, Ph.D., Provost
and Executive Vice President at Furman.
W. Hodding
Carter III began his career as a reporter with his family’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi.
He worked on two successful presidential campaigns, those of Lyndon
Johnson in 1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1976. In 1977, President Carter
appointed him Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and
State Department spokesman. He was frequently in the public eye
during the Iran hostage crisis.
Beginning in
1980, Carter went on to become an award-winning television commentator
and newspaper correspondent on public affairs, working with ABC,
NBC, PBS, BBC, The New York Times, and other major news publications
and cable networks. More recently he served as president of the
Knight Foundation, which makes grants to help transform journalism
and communities. He has authored two books, The Reagan Years and
The South Strikes Back. Currently, he is University Professor of
Public Policy and Leadership at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill and serves on the board of Americans for Campaign
Reform.
Americans for
Campaign Reform is a non-partisan, grassroots organization of citizens
whose purpose is to help enact public funding for all federal elections
— for the House, the Senate and the Presidency.
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