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'Conversation with James Baker' set for April 13
Posted April 6, 2006; 08:58 p.m.
"A Conversation with James Baker," a talk with the former U.S.
secretary of state, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 13, in
McCosh 10.
Baker, a member of Princeton's class of 1952, held senior positions
under three presidents. He was secretary of state from 1989 to 1992
under the first President Bush, serving as America's chief diplomat at
the end of the Cold War and during the collapse of communism. In the
last several months of Bush's presidency, Baker served as White House
chief of staff and senior counselor.
Under President Reagan, Baker was chief of staff, secretary of the
treasury and chair of the President's Economic Policy Council. He also
served in the Ford administration as undersecretary of commerce. Baker
led the presidential campaigns of Ford, Reagan and Bush in five
elections from 1976 to 1992.
Baker received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and has won
many other awards for distinguished public service, including
Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Award. He is a former member of the
University's Board of Trustees.
Baker is honorary chair of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public
Policy at Rice University and has served in recent years as a special
envoy for United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the current
President Bush on international issues.
The talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs as part of a series of events celebrating the school's 75th anniversary.