Former deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove visited the University of Pittsburgh campus on Monday, March, 3, 2008 (media coverage here, here, here, here, and here). During his stay, Rove …
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Cold War Perino-ia
After fielding a question about the Cuban missile crisis in a daily briefing last October, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino later admitted, “I was panicked a bit because I really know nothing about the Cuban missile crisis.”…
Wargo on Child Soldiers
Alec Wargo, a Program Officer with the United Nation’s Office of the Special Representative for Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, spoke to a packed house during a Ford Institute lecture on October 31, 2007.
Wargo described his office’s bureaucratic maneuvering and fieldwork, providing a historical sketch of …
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Question for Karl Rove about Negotiations with Iran
This question was generated by student Group E in Cold War Rhetoric, an undergraduate course in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. The question was played for Karl Rove during his visit to a special meeting of the class on March 3, 2008.
In the students’ peer evaluation using a standardized rating rubric, […]
Question for Karl Rove about the Bush Library
This question was generated by student Group C in Cold War Rhetoric, an undergraduate course in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. The question was played for Karl Rove during his visit to a special meeting of the class on March 3, 2008.
In the students’ peer evaluation using a standardized rating rubric, […]
Question for Karl Rove about Iran’s Nuclear Program
This question was generated by student Group F in Cold War Rhetoric, an undergraduate course in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. The question was played for Karl Rove during his visit to a special meeting of the class on March 3, 2008.
In the students’ peer evaluation using a standardized rating rubric, […]
