University of Central Arkansas political science professor Dr. Gary D. Wekkin will present ?Was the Clinton Presidency a ?co-Presidency??: The Vice Presidency, the First Ladyship, and the Plural Presidency? during the 11th Presidential Conference, Nov. 10-12, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.The conference, ?William Jefferson Clinton: The ?New Democrat? From Hope,? will be hosted by the Hofstra University Cultural Center.
President Clinton is scheduled to attend and participate in the first day of the conference.
Wekkin will also serve as a commentator for a panel discussion, ?A New Role for the First Lady: Staffers? and Scholars? Assessments.?
Two additional presidential scholars from Arkansas are also scheduled to present at the conference. Dean Emeritus Dr. Robert Moberly, a professor of the University of Arkansas School of Law, will present ?Labor-management Relations During the Clinton Administration,? and David Alsobrook, director of the President William Jefferson Clinton Library and Museum, will speak about the library and museum.
Among others expected to attend are Secretary of Commerce and Counsel to the President Mickey Kantor, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Chief of Staff Leon E. Panetta, Secretary of Defense William Perry, Attorney General Janet Reno, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Senior Advisers to the President Sidney Blumenthal and David Gergen, Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, Press Secretary Joe Lockhart, Presidential Aide Ira Magaziner, Chief of Staff John D. Podesta, U.N. Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter, Congressman Peter King and Pulitzer Prize-winning Presidential Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
