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The
Lifelines Center
Founded
in the fall of 1999, the Center’s mission is to create an
environment where people can engage with one another face to face
around the issues that most deeply touch our lives, helping to
build meaningful community through dialogue and creative interchange.
The
Center sponsors lecture programs held in Reidy Friendship Hall at All Souls:
hour-long presentations by speakers (free and open to the public)
preceded by refreshments and followed by a discussion.
Past
speakers have included Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Gary
Hart, Geoffrey Canada,
Katrina vanden Heuvel, William Sloane Coffin, Eugenie Scott,
Dan Wakefield and Cornel West.
If
you would like more information on the Lifelines Center, call
David Robb at All Souls at (212) 535-5530.
 Thursday, March 18 at 7 p.m.
(reception at 6:30 p.m.)
in Reidy Friendship Hall:
Why Presidents Fail
with Richard Pious, Ph.D.
Drawing on examples from both Democratic and Republican administrations during the last half of the 20th century to the present, political scientist Richard Pious explores the processes of presidential decision-making that have frequently led to difficulty from a political perspective. He will especially focus on three areas of significant concern in the present historical context: economic policy, health care initiatives, and presidential war-making powers.
Richard Pious, Ph.D., is the Adolf and Effie Ochs Professor of American Studies at Barnard College and Professor in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. A graduate of Colby College and the doctoral program at Columbia University, Professor Pious is the author of several books on presidential power including The American Presidency (1979), The President, Congress, and the Constitution (1984), Richard Nixon: A Political Life (1991), The War on Terrorism and the Rule of Law (2006) and, most recently, Why Presidents Fail: White House Decision-Making from Eisenhower to Bush II. Mr. Pious has served as a consultant to Congressional committees on presidential war-powers and lectured on the issues involved in American presidential politics and authority at universities throughout the US, Canada, and the UK. Since 1994 he has served as senior consultant to the Foreign Ministry of the Government of Japan. From 1999 - 2006 he served as Chair of the Political Science Department at Barnard.
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