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Volume 51, Issue 32 | Wednesday, October 5, 2016 | ndsmcobserver.com
Historian shares presidential impressions Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses Lincoln, Johnson, both Roosevelts during Christian Culture Lecture By KATHRYN MARSHALL News Writer
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has studied, interacted with and written about numerous presidents of the United States. On Tuesday night, Goodwin shared some of her observations of them with a packed auditorium at her lecture, “Leadership Lessons from the White House.” The talk was the 11th annual Christian Culture Lecture Series, hosted by the Humanistic Studies Department at Saint Mary’s. At the age of 24, Goodwin was a White House Fellow under the administration of Lyndon Johnson. Spending hours with Johnson
and listening to his stories and memories fired a drive in her to understand the inner person behind the public figure, she said. Goodwin has written on presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt (FDR), all of whom were exceptional leaders, she said. “Lincoln was blessed with a poetic gift and a profound sense of empathy, Teddy with an irrepressible energy and curiosity, FDR with a phenomenal memory and first rate temperament, and they shared what is perhaps the most critical aspect for a good leader: the ability to withstand see PRESIDENTS PAGE 4
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Doris Kearns Goodwin speaks Tuesday night in the O’Laughlin Auditorium at Saint Mary’s. Goodwin’s writings focus on exposing the “inner person” behind many famous presidents.
Panel explores resources for pregnant students By MEGAN VALLEY News Writer
Notre Dame Right to Life hosted a pregnancy resources training panel Tuesday night as the keynote event in this year’s Respect Life Week. “Our big week every fall semester is Respect Life Week, and we always pick a specific theme,” Right to Life president Aly Cox
said. “This year, we picked ‘you are not alone’ and all the events are about reaching out to vulnerable populations and saying, ‘You are not alone. We care about you. We love you.’” The event was co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Culture, the Institute for Church Life, the Gender Relations Center (GRC) and the College Democrats. “We’re trying to train as many
people as possible on campus about what the resources are, because Notre Dame has some of the best resources for pregnant students in the country, but so many students just don’t know about them,” Cox said. Christine Caron Gebhardt, director of the GRC, and Jessica Keating, director of the Office see PANEL PAGE 4
Clown sighting reported at SMC Observer Staff Report
A person dressed as a clown was seen near the entrance to Saint Mary’s campus on State Road 933, according to an email sent to the student body from Dave Gariepy, director of security. In the email, Gariepy said the report was made around 11:36 p.m. Monday night. The sighting was reported to security and local
law enforcement. Gariepy said security and law enforcement searched the area but were unable to find the person. Notre Dame Security Police was also informed about the situation. No additional reports were made, which Gariepy said indicates that there is no reason for concern. He said security see CLOWN PAGE 3
Students weigh in on vice presidential debate A little more than one week after Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump sparred in the first presidential debate of the 2016 election, their respective running mates, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, faced off in their only debate of the election cycle at Longwood University in Virginia Tuesday night. ND Votes hosted a watch party for the debate in the LaFortune Ballroom for students to discuss the issues the candidates addressed. Over the course of the night, Kaine
and Pence were tasked with issues relating to the trustworthiness of their respective running mates, national security, economic development and matters of faith. Junior Shane Jenkins said that the two candidates differed in their demeanor when answering questions. “Tim Kaine … had certain parts prepared [with] full arguments and stories that he prepared before,” Jenkins said. “He liked to interrupt and was very excited. Pence seemed to be more reserved and seemed to be doing a better job than Trump in the previous debate.”
Junior Louie Filipiak noted that the candidates seemed to have a difficult time addressing each other’s points of view because they have fundamentally different views of America. “Several times Kaine would interrupt because Pence was forming his own reality based on conservatism, while at the same time, when Kaine would speak, Pence would just shake his head,” Filipiak said, “They’re forming their own views of what America is like and almost seemed to think that the other’s was not a true reality.” Both Filipiak and Jenkins believed that this distinction was
evident in how the two candidates used certain terms. “One example is ‘business,’ [with a] positive connotation for Pence and a negative connotation for Kaine,” Filipiak said. Filipiak said that this debate appeared to be different in tone from Clinton and Trump’s debate. “I think that this debate was a lot more respectful because it was an exchange of ideas,” Filipiak said. It seemed hard at times for Pence to distance himself from Donald Trump and his views, Filipiak said. “The problem for Pence is that he is stuck with this looming Trump shadow over his shoulder,” he said.
“Every time he tries to explain some conservative ideal, it’s almost with the caveat that we want to do this, but we also have Donald Trump to do this.” Filipiak said that this ‘shadow’ of Trump allowed Kaine to go on the attack throughout the course of the debate. “Kaine had all these things in his arsenal ahead of time on how [Trump’s views represent] extremism, not even conservative extremism but just extremism,” FIlipiak said.
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Contact Lucas Masin-Moyer at lmasinmo@nd.edu