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Congress and the Cold War

Sponsored by the Cold War International History Project
Woodrow Wilson Center,
in cooperation with the Center's Congress Project and the Division of 
U.S. Studies

December 01 2005, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Featuring
Robert David (KC) Johnson, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
David M. Barrett, Villanova University
Congressman John B. Anderson, Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern 
University and Chair of the Center for Voting and Democracy
Walter Pincus, The Washington Post
Christian Ostermann (chair)

5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson Center
1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20004
For directions and RSVP, go to <http://www.cwihp.org>www.cwihp.org

Based on new documentary evidence, Robert Davis (KC) Johnson and 
David M. Barrett have written groundbreaking books--"Congress and the 
Cold War" and "The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to 
Kennedy," respectively--that examine the role Congress played in the 
Cold War. They challenge the popular image of a weak Cold War 
Congress, in which the unbalanced relationship between the 
legislative and executive branches culminated in the escalation of 
the U.S. commitment in Vietnam.

Robert David Johnson is professor of history at Brooklyn College and the
CUNY Graduate Center, where he specializes in 20th century American 
politics and foreign policy. He is author of Ernest Gruening and the 
American Dissenting Tradition (Harvard, 1998) and The Peace 
Progressives and American Foreign Relations (Harvard, 1995); and is 
co-editor of four volumes of Lyndon Johnson's presidential recordings 
(Norton, 2005, 2006).

He has published articles on Congress and U.S. foreign relations in 
Political Science Quarterly, Diplomatic History, the Journal of Cold 
War Studies, International History Review, the Journal of Latin 
American History, Pacific Historical Review, the Journal of 
American-East Asian Relations, and the Encyclopedia of American 
Foreign Policy.

David M. Barrett is Associate Professor of Political Science at 
Villanova University. A native of Louisiana, he formerly worked in 
public broadcasting and ran for a congressional seat in Indiana in 
1984. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1990.

He is author of the book Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His
Vietnam Advisers (1993) and editor of the book Lyndon B. Johnson's 
Vietnam Papers (1997). He has published in journals including 
Intelligence and National Security, Studies in Intelligence, and the 
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. He 
spent seven years and visited approximately two dozen archives in 
researching The CIA and Congress.

John B. Anderson, who received 6 million votes as an independent 
United States presidential candidate in 1980, has served as chair of 
the Center for Voting and Democracy since 1996 after four years as 
chair of the Center's Advisory Board.

He is an accomplished speaker and his recent media appearances 
include the BBC, NPR and C-SPAN among others. He is a frequent 
lecturer and expert commentator on issues of electoral reform, United 
Nations reform, foreign affairs, American politics, and independent 
candidacies. He also writes regularly on the role of Congress in both 
domestic and international affairs. He is president of the World 
Federalist Association.

Mr. Anderson has taught political science as a visiting professor at 
numerous universities, including Bryn Mawr College, Brandeis 
University, Stanford University, Oregon State University, the 
University of Illinois, the Washington School of Law and Nova 
Southeastern University. He has taught constitutional law at Nova 
Southeastern University since the fall of 2001.

Between 1961 and 1981, Mr. Anderson served ten terms as U.S. 
Representative to Congress from the 16th District of Illinois. He 
served on the House Rules Committee and for a decade was Chairman of 
the House Republican Conference.

Walter Pincus is a writer for the national news staff of the 
Washington Post. At the Post, Pincus has written about a variety of 
national news subjects including nuclear weapons and arms control, 
political campaigns, the American hostages in Iran, and 
investigations of Congress and the Executive Branch. For six years he 
covered the Iran-Contra affair. He was also a part-time consultant to 
NBC News and later to CBS News, where he developed, wrote and 
produced television segments for network evening news, magazine shows 
and documentaries. Pincus has won several awards including a Pulitzer 
in 2001, which he shared with others for stories about Osama bin 
Laden. He was awarded the first Stewart Alsop Award for national 
security and intelligence reporting by the Association of Foreign 
Intelligence Officers; the George Polk Award for stories appearing in 
the Washington Post that exposed the neutron warhead, the Page One 
Award for magazine reporting in The Reporter, and a television 
writing Emmy for a one-hour program on CBS.

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