At the Water's Edge?: Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy

Drawing from over 5,000 hours of secret recordings of former White House Presidents, Marc Selverstone, Assistant Professor with the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, will discuss the tapes from the Presidential eras of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Professor Selverstone will examine the role of domestic politics on the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and share other fascinating findings.

Marc Selverstone Assistant Professor Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs Wednesday, April 9, 2008 6:00 PM- 9:00 PM The Shenandoah Club 24 Franklin Road, SW Roanoke, VA Directions Host: UVaClub of the Roanoke Valley http://www.uvaclubs.virginia.edu/roanokevalley	UVaClub of the Roanoke Valley Event Host
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About the Speaker

Marc Selverstone is an assistant professor with the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, where he transcribes and annotates the secret White House recordings of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He teaches courses at U.Va on U.S. foreign policy and is the author of two books "Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950" (Harvard University Press, 2008) and "The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam" under contract (Harvard University Press). For a listing of related reading, visit Lecture Resources.

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