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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
Politics / Government<br>
September 2007<br>
Ford Hall Forum Media Contact: Mary Curtin, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell),
marycurtin@comcast.net <br>
Ford Hall Forum Director: Alex Minier, 617-373-5800, alex@fordhallforum.neu.edu<br>
<font color=black><span style='color:black'>[Charlie Savage is available for
phone interviews]</span></font><br>
[high res digital images available]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ford Hall Forum<br>
</span></b>presents<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Takeover: the Return of the Imperial
Presidency and<br>
the Subversion of American Democracy<br>
<br>
</span></b>with<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Charlie Savage</span></b><br>
<br>
Thursday, October 4, 6:30-8:00 pm<br>
at the<br>
Old South Meeting House</span></font><font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:place>) <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ford
Hall Forum</span></b> presents “<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Takeover:
the Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy</span></b>”
with <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Charlie Savage</span></b>. Thursday, October
4, at 6:30-8:00 pm. Followed by an open discussion and book signing.
Admission is free and open to all. Old South Meeting House, <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">310 Washington Street</st1:address></st1:Street>
(corner of <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Milk St.</st1:address></st1:Street>),
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:place>.
Wheelchair accessible and conveniently located near the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Park Street</st1:address></st1:Street>, Downtown Crossing, and <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">State Street</st1:address></st1:Street> stops
on the MBTA. For more information call Ford Hall Forum 617-373-5800 or visit
www.fordhallforum.org.<br>
<br>
President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws
enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any
statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the
Constitution. Is such an interpretation of presidential power necessary in an
age of terrorism and imminent security threats? Or, as one critic suggests,
will these new tools “lie around like a loaded weapon” for any
future president, liberal or conservative, to impose his or her own agenda on
the country? <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Charlie Savage</span></b>,
Boston Globe reporter and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for National
Reporting, joins Ford Hall Forum to address the Bush administration’s
expanding executive powers and what it means for the future of our country.<br>
<br>
<u>Background Information</u>:<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Charlie Savage</span></b> is a <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place> correspondent
for the Boston Globe. He covers the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice,
and the Department of Homeland Security, with a focus on legal and policy
issues related to the war on terrorism. Savage was born in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Fort Wayne</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Indiana</st1:State></st1:place>,
in 1975. He earned an undergraduate degree in English from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
in 1998, and then began his journalism career as a government and politics
reporter for the Miami Herald. In 2002-03, Savage was a Knight Foundation
journalism fellow at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Yale</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
where he earned a master's degree. He joined the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place> bureau of the Globe in October
2003. Savage was recently honored with a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on
the Bush Administration.<br>
<br>
In its 99th fall series of events, the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ford
Hall Forum</span></b> presents seven open public discussions on the issues
concerning our community, nation, and world today. With the 2008 election
approaching, the Forum takes a hard look at the state of our government and the
policy issues that affect us all. Across a wide range of perspectives –-
from the left to the right, from the harsh to the humorous – the Forum
hands over the microphone to thought-provoking speakers on the front lines. To
facilitate frank and open discussion, equal time is provided for
speakers’ remarks and audience members’ questions. At the Ford Hall
Forum, no speaker goes unquestioned and no view goes unchallenged.<br>
<br>
The <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ford Hall Forum</span></b> promotes
freedom of speech and fosters an informed and effective citizenry through the
public presentation of lectures, debates, and discussions. Its events
illuminate the key issues facing our society by bringing to its podium
knowledgeable and thought-provoking speakers, including some of the most
controversial opinion leaders of our times. These speakers are presented in
person, for free, and in settings, which facilitate frank and open debate.
As the nation’s oldest free public lecture series, it has a storied
past as a venue for some of the most intriguing figures in our nation’s
modern history, including Maya Angelou, Isaac Asimov, Alan Dershowitz, W.E.B.
DuBois, Stephen Jay Gould, Al Gore, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Henry
Kissinger, Norman Mailer, Ayn Rand, Cokie Roberts, Eleanor Roosevelt, and
Malcolm X, to name just a few. Programs of the Ford Hall Forum are made
possible through contributions from individual members as well as corporations
and foundations, including The Boston Foundation, The Boston Public Library,
Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel,
Fidelity Investments, The Fred and Marty Corneel Fund, Houghton Chemical Corporation,
Levine Katz Nannis + Solomon P.C., The Lowell Institute, Massachusetts Cultural
Council, The Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Northeastern University, The Old
South Meeting House, Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye LLP, WBUR 90.9 FM, and
WGBH 89.7 FM. For more information log onto www.fordhallforum.org or
contact Alex Minier at alex@fordhallforum.org, 617-373-5800.<br>
<br>
The Ford Hall Forum presents this program in collaboration with the <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Old South Meeting House</span></b>, as part of their
Partners in Public Dialogue Series. Old South Meeting House is a non-profit
museum and historic site, located on the Freedom Trail, dedicated to sustaining
the building’s tradition as a community-gathering place for the free
exchange of ideas and to provide a place where people can connect the issues of
the past with the issues of today. It receives support from the Massachusetts
Cultural Council, a state agency, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Institute</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
and Library Services, a federal agency, and other public and private sources.
Visit www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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c/o Mary Curtin<br>
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">PO Box 290703</st1:Street>, <st1:City
w:st="on">Charlestown</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">02129</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><br>
617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin@comcast.net</span></font><br>
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to staging insightful entertainment, particularly in non-traditional
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