Oct 06, 1997

Prominent Political Figures from Jesse Jackson to Henry Hyde to Lecture at DePaul on How to Influence the Political Process

News Bureau

Prominent Political Figures from Jesse Jackson to Henry Hyde to Lecture at DePaul on How to Influence the Political Process

For Immediate Release
October 6, 1997

Former Democratic National Committee Chairman David Wilhelm and Republican Party strategist Thomas Roeser have teamed up to give students at DePaul University an inside look at how politics work.

Wilhelm and Roeser have invited a host of prominent players in American politics to give lectures in their course, "Public Policy in the United States: Influencing the System." The Tuesday night lectures will be held in the Schmitt Academic Center Room 154 on DePaul's Lincoln Park Campus. They are free and open to the public.

Oct. 14	The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
6 p.m.	Topic: "The Saints"

Oct. 21	Michael Deaver, top assistant to former President Ronald Reagan, 1981-89
8 p.m.	Topic: "Presidency/The White House"

Oct. 28	Don Haidor, budget chief under former Mayor Jane Byrne and former Deputy Assistant Treasurer under former President Jimmy Carter Forrest Claypool, superintendent, Chicago Park District
8 p.m.	Topic: "Bureaucracy"

Nov. 4
6 p.m.	U.S. Rep. Luis Guiterrez (D-Chicago)Topic: "Bureaucracy"
7 p.m.	U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Wood Dale)
	Topic: "Congress"

Nov. 11	Robert H. Malott, former chairman, FMC Corp. Donald Turner, president, Chicago Federation of Labor
8 p.m.	Topic: "Business"

Nov. 18	Edwin Meese III, U.S. Attorney General under Ronald Reagan; currently senior fellow at Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
8 p.m.	Topic: "The Courts"