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Deliberative Democracy Series: Courageous Leadership During Democratic Crises – Lessons from William S. Cohen
Join Political Science and History alumnus Dr. Ryan LaRochelle ’10 for a talk on William S. Cohen’s role as the first Republican on the House Judiciary Committee to advance impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal, his work on the Iran-Contra Committee, and his efforts to work across party lines to maintain the military’s legitimacy while President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Defense. Dr. LaRochelle is a senior lecturer at the William S. Cohen Institute for Leadership and Public Service at the University of Maine, where he teach courses in its interdisciplinary Leadership Studies program, in the Department of Political Science, and in the Honors College.
This event is part of the Deliberative Democracy Lecture Series and is this year’s SMC History Department Kuntz Lecture.
