Tucson, AZ – Former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush will serve as honorary chairmen of a new center at the University of Arizona that will focus on civility in political debate, university officials will announce Monday.
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The National Institute for Civil Discourse – a nonpartisan center for debate, research, education and policy about civility in public discourse – will open Monday in Tucson. It was created in the aftermath of the Jan. 8 shootings in the city where six people were killed and 13 injured, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).
Former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor and former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) will serve as honorary co-chairmen. Board members will include former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright; Kenneth M. Duberstein, chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan; Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren; Trey Grayson, director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics; and former representative Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.).
The center will be funded with private donations, and $1 million has already been raised, said DuVal, who will head the working board of the institute, which is his brainchild. The institute plans to organize workshops and conferences in Tucson, Washington and elsewhere nationwide, and will bring together leaders from across the political spectrum to develop programs to promote civil discourse.
Read more in tomorrow’s Washington Post
discourse isnt discourse without it being slightly rowdy soo if this is about squelching the proper freedom of expression im tottally against it sometimes the freedom of speech in THIS country should be allowed to be slightly disconcerting and insufferable
No. 1 you implore the wrong help and only nincompoops must be slightly towdy. President Bush former Congressman, head of the CIA, Ambassador and finally President did not need to be rowdy because he had “credentials” and those who are rodwy only have one thing a big mouth and load and reload. With G’ds help we will have present and develop higher caliber type politicians/states-people and who can present intellect instead nastiness
With G’ds help the problem is that this new would be statesmen/states-person display only or have to offer guile, vituperation, mis-labeling and pure unalduterated ignorance and twisting of the truth. Calling Nazis, socialists, leftists is not a thoughout argument but accusations. Funny the same programs which were labeled socialist are not cut off and create a havoc in the those conservative , groups