Brian Lamb & Susan Page Discussion 4/4/2018 - The State of American Politics
Join Brian Lamb & Susan Page Discussion
The State of American Politics
Reception 5pm
Discussion 6:30pm
Purdue Memorial Union – North Ballroom
The State of American Politics
As part of a year-long kick-off to inaugurate the new Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement, veteran Washington and White House journalist Susan Page will visit the Purdue campus on Wednesday, April 4th, for a campus-wide engagement on the state of American politics.
In conversation with C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, they will delve into the past year of the Trump presidency, the current state of politics, and the upcoming congressional elections that could have an enormous impact on America’s future. Students will be given the opportunity to ask questions, as well.
Susan Page is singularly the best person to come to campus at this time. Her experience of covering the past six administrations and ten presidential elections give students, faculty, and area citizens an opportunity to understand the changing nature of our national politics. Over her career, she has won every journalism award given specifically for coverage of the White House.
In addition, Susan has had a front row seat to the changing face of American journalism in her role at USA Today, in her frequent appearances on national television talk shows, and as a frequent guest host for National Public Radio.
Susan Page
Susan Page is the Washington Bureau chief of USA Today, where she writes about politics and the White House.
Susan has covered six White House administrations and 10presidential elections. She has interviewed the past nine presidents (three after they left office) and reported from six continents and dozens of foreign countries. She regularly appears as an analyst on CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR and other TV and radio outlets. She has won every journalism award given specifically for coverage of the White House.
She twice was awarded the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency . The White House Correspondents Association has honored her with the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Deadline Reporting on the Presidency as well as the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award, given for excellence in coverage of the White House. Among other national awards, she was a member of a team that won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence. In 2017, she received the Excellence in Journalism Award from the American News Women’s Club. She has served as president of the White House Correspondents Association, chairman of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, and president of the Gridiron Club, the oldest association of journalists in Washington. She twice has served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes.
She is a member of the Attorney General’s News Media Dialogue Group, created during the Obama administration. As a reporter -- first for Newsday and then for USA TODAY – she drove to Three Mile Island hours after the nuclear mishap was reported, traveled across Southeast Asia to chronicle the exodus of Vietnamese ‘boat people,’ sat down to dinner with Richard Nixon to hear his critique of Ronald Reagan’s reelection campaign, and interviewed physicist Stephen Hawking through his computerized ‘voice.’
A native of Wichita, Kansas, she received a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, where she was editor-in-chief of The Daily Northwestern . She received a master’s degree from Columbia University, where she was a Pulitzer Fellow. She is married to Carl Leubsdorf, a columnist with The Dallas Morning News . They have two sons, Ben and Will. January 2018
