LIFETIME LEARNING LECTURE ON THE PRESIDENCY THIS THURSDAY

  

Washington County’s Lifetime Learning is holding a luncheon and lecture this Thursday titled, “The Power of the POTUS: The Executive Office of the President from FDR TO GWB”.

Lifetime Learning invites the community to join Dr. Robert Holzweiss, a presidential scholar from the George Bush Library at Texas A&M University, as he discusses the power of the Presidency. Holzweiss will explore how Presidents from FDR to GWB expanded the power of the office to address social, economic, international and political problems, and how the growing power of the Chief Executive is in turn challenging the traditional role of Legislative and Judicial Branches of government.

Robert earned a BA in American History from St. Bonaventure University in 1990 and an MA in American History from Texas A&M University in 1992. Dr. Holzweiss completed his PhD. in American History at Texas A&M University in May 2001 with a specialization in business and economic history and 20th Century America. His dissertation, Politics, Profits, and the Public Interest: Government, Railroads, and Interest Groups 1827–1976, examines the role of politics in the Penn Central bankruptcy and the creation of the Consolidated Railroad Company, better known as Conrail.

During graduate school, Dr. Holzweiss interned for three summers at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland where he served as an archival and curatorial assistant. He started his career in June 1996 in the archives at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. In August 2014, Dr. Holzweiss was promoted to Deputy Director and currently manages the archival, museum and administrative functions of the Library.

The event will be held from 11:30 until 1 p.m. in the Janis Sneed Banquet Room in Blinn College Student Center in Brenham. The ticket price is $25. For more information, contact Cindy Nash at 979-830-0286 or visit lifetimelearning.org.