July 6, 1999

KEEPING A CIVIL TONGUE IN THE U.S. SENATE
DOLE INSTITUTE TO OFFER CIVILITY CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON

The one-day conference begins at 8 a.m. Friday, July 16, in Room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building. The event is the first presented in Washington by the Robert J. Dole Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at the University of Kansas.

Dole will introduce the principal speaker, Harry C. McPherson, former special counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson, at 1 p.m. McPherson is author of "A Political Education: A Journal of Life with Senators, Generals, Cabinet Members and Presidents."

Before lunch two panels will examine courtesy and respect in the senate past, present and future. Participants will include Kansas senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, Roger Davidson of the University of Maryland in College Park, Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, Barbara Sinclair, University of California at Los Angeles and Sheila Burke, dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal and Richard Cohen of National Journal Senate Historian Richard Baker and Senate Parliamentarian Robert Dove.

"This is a great opportunity for the Dole Institute to introduce itself to the Washington community. A conference that examines the Senate, past and present, as a deliberative body follows directly from Bob Dole's long and productive Senate career," said Burdett Loomis, Dole Institute director at the University of Kansas.

The conference is funded as part of the Pew Charitable Trusts project on civility and governance in the U.S. Congress and is administered through the Aspen Institute. Conference papers will be published as a book.

A complete program is available on the Dole Institute's Web page http://www.ku.edu/~dole98.

THE ROBERT J. DOLE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE AND PUBLIC POLICY

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