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LAWRENCE -- Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian and director of KU's Dole Institute of Politics, will appear Tuesday on a History Channel program about presidential libraries.
The program, "Presidential Libraries with Roger Mudd," airs at 7 p.m. Central time on the national cable network. In exclusive interviews, Mudd talks with former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. Bush and Bill Clinton about the building of their presidential libraries and their views on their place in history.
In addition to the one-on-one interviews with the former presidents, Mudd speaks with Smith and reveals how presidential libraries came about, what happened to presidential papers before Franklin Roosevelt's decision to establish a federal system for preserving them, and recent controversies over their funding.
Smith is a nationally recognized authority on the American presidency and a frequent guest on PBS' News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Smith has served as director of the Ford, Reagan, Hoover and Eisenhower presidential libraries.
The Dole Institute, established at KU in 1997 to honor the former Kansas senator and presidential nominee, is designed to foster new thinking on major policy issues and encourage student participation and citizen involvement in public service. The 28,000-square-foot Dole Institute building, now under construction adjacent to the Lied Center, is scheduled to be dedicated July 22, 2003, Dole's 80th birthday.
Note: Smith also will appear on PBS' News Hour on Thursday to discuss results of Tuesday's election.
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