Grove City College Reagan Lecture to Feature Walker
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, president of Young America’s Foundation, will be the featured speaker at The Institute for Faith & Freedom at Grove City College’s 17th annual Ronald Reagan Lecture.
Walker will discuss “Ronald Reagan: The Man, the Movie, and the Movement” with Dr. Paul Kengor, a professor of political science and the institute’s senior director and chief academic fellow, and Grove City College President Paul J. McNulty. The lecture takes place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29 in the auditorium of Crawford Hall on campus.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information, visit faithandfreedom.com.
The annual Ronald Reagan Lecture illuminates the 40th president’s enduring contributions to America and the world. The goal of the Reagan Lecture is to promote the principles of faith and freedom that the iconic Republican president embodied and advanced during his political career.
This year’s lecture highlights the film “Reagan,” which is based on a Kengor book that provides the context of the real life Reagan and conservative movement he championed. Walker is both a product of that movement and a successful keeper of its legacy, according to Kengor.
Walker was “a model Reagan conservative,” Kengor says. Reforms he backed saved taxpayers more than $16 billion dollars and drove critics to attempt to recall him in 2012. He won and became the first governor in American history to win a recall election.
As leader of the Young America’s Foundation, Walker plays a role in keeping Reagan’s memory alive for young conservatives through the organization’s custodianship of the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., where parts of the movie “Reagan” were filmed.
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