National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to attend Dole Institute dedication

LAWRENCE -- A top White House official will be among the noted dignitaries attending the formal dedication of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas.

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will attend the formal dedication ceremony, which will begin at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 22, on KU's West Campus.

"The White House feels it's important for someone to be here because of their high regard for Sen. Dole, and they want to join in the salute to World War II vets," said Richard Norton Smith, director of the Dole Institute.

Before taking on the role as national security adviser, Rice spent six years as the provost of Stanford University in California. She had been a member of the Stanford University faculty since 1981 as a professor of political science.

From 1989 to 1991, she served in the administration of President George Herbert Walker Bush as director, and then senior director, of Soviet and East European affairs in the National Security Council, and a special assistant to the president for national security affairs.

The four-day dedication program will include the ConocoPhillips military air parade and a fashion show; a re-created USO-style performance; an evening of dancing to the Glenn Miller Orchestra; and an outdoor concert by the 312th Army Band as well as the formal dedication. Among the dignitaries attending the events are former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, author of "The Greatest Generation." The events will start at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 19, with the kickoff of the Memory Tent, which will begin with "Heroes of Lawrence, Part 1."

For more information about the event visit www.doleinstitute.org/dedication or www.dolemedia.ku.edu.