A Nation Engaged: Power & The Presidency — 4/20/17

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Throughout the election and the first weeks of the Trump presidency, NPR and Member stations worked together to encourage a national conversation about important questions facing the nation. Now it’s time to continue -- and build on -- that conversation. Our collaborative project, A Nation Engaged, will examine the theme of power and the presidency.

We are taking that topic into communities across the country.

NPR will team up with stations and Presidential Libraries in four parts of the country: the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, the Carter Library in Atlanta, Georgia, the Hoover Library in West Branch, Iowa, and the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.

At each of these four historic locations, Member stations will host live events in communities, bringing together people from across the political spectrum to talk about the American political system’s tradition of checks and balances and the electorate to talk about the way ahead. NPR will be working with KCLU in Santa Barbara, WABE in Atlanta, KCUR in Kansas City, and Iowa Public Radio.

We will bring guests and highlights from the four community events to a national audience by teaming up with WBUR’s On Point, the national call-in show hosted by Tom Ashbrook.

We will ask audiences a straightforward question: How powerful should any President be? The discussion will look at the roles and responsibilities of the Congress, the Courts, the bureaucracy, and the press to check a president. It will ask whether a president elected to disrupt Washington can actually do so.

We feel that it’s important to keep the conversation going among our audience -- and people who may not regularly be part of our audience – at this important new phase in our country’s history. Public radio -- with its national reach and local roots -- is as well positioned as any media organization to make this happen.

This event is free to attend, however reservations are required. No political campaigning will be permitted at this event, nor may guests wear/carry shirts, banners, buttons, etc. promoting any political agenda.

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Opening Remarks by John Heubusch, Executive Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute.

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