Clinton to give 1st Dole Lecture

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will deliver the inaugural Robert J. Dole Lecture at 2:15 p.m. Friday, May 21, in the Lied Center.

Dole, who personally invited Clinton, said he was delighted his Democratic opponent in the 1996 presidential campaign had agreed to kick off the new lecture series.

The Dole Lecture is one in a series of signature programs designed to bring together the institute and the community. Each spring, on or about the date of Dole’s wounding in Italy during World War II, the institute will bring a prominent figure to campus to address some aspect of international politics or diplomacy.

The institute has sponsored events with C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb and presidential adviser David Gergen and a presidential lecture series featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers David McCullough, Roger Wilkins, Edmund Morris and Robert Caro.

For more information, call (785) 864-4900 or visit www.doleinstitute.org.