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What is needed to realize the promise of American democracy?
Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter and Author Hedrick Smith
Hedrick Smith began his career covering the Civil Rights Movement for UPI in Memphis, Nashville, and Atlanta from 1959 to 1962, he then moved on to the New York Times, where he reported from 1962 to 1988. In 26 years with The New York Times, Mr. Smith covered Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights struggle, the Vietnam War from Saigon, the Middle East conflict from Cairo, the Cold War from both Moscow and Washington, and six American presidents and their administrations. In 1971, as chief diplomatic correspondent, he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that produced the Pentagon Papers series. In 1974, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting from Russia and Eastern Europe. He also won two Emmy Awards for programs produced for the Public Broadcasting System. Hedrick Smith’s latest book, Who Stole the American Dream? details the rising political influence of private corporations since the 1970s.
and Former Scholar at US Term Limits Stephen Erickson
Stephen Erickson is the President and founder of the Clean Government Alliance He is a writer / activist who published articles in the 1990s relating to term limits for the Heritage Foundation and Cato. He served as Resident Scholar at US Term Limits. He is today a resident of Portsmouth, NH and a registered Republican.
