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Also speaking will be R.W. Apple, Washington bureau chief of the The New York Times; Gwen Ifill, national correspondent for NBC News; Morton Kondracke, of CNN's McLaughlin Group; and Frank Greer, prominent media consultant for President Clinton and others. The public will be invited to ask questions.

The series, organized through the Johns Hopkins' School of Continuing Studies' Odyssey program, will take place on five Wednesday evenings, from Oct. 18 through Nov. 15 from 8-9.30 p.m. on the Baltimore Homewood campus. Advance registration is required.

Pierre Salinger, press secretary to JFK and longtime chief of ABC's Paris bureau, kicks off the series on Oct. 18. Historic footage of President Kennedy precedes his talk and Salinger will autograph copies of his new book, P.S. A Memoir, published by St. Martin's Press, directly afterwards.

Nov. 8.

For public information and registration, call the Odyssey office at (410) 516-4842. Cost for the entire program is $80, including a reception following Bradlee's talk. The Bradlee talk only is also being endowed as the university's Kent lecture and is therefore available free and open to the pubic in addition to being offered as part of this series.

For media inquiries only, call Ghita Levine, series organizer and moderator, at (410) 516-7160.

Schedule: Press and Presidents, From JFK to Clinton.

Oct.25
Press and Presidents
BENJAMIN C. BRADLEE, Considered the most important and famous newspaperman of modern times, his leadership as executive editor of The Washington Post literally led to the downfall of a president. A private reception for course participants only follows the lecture.

Nov. 1
Shaping a President through the Media
ED ROLLINS, the provocative political strategist who directed Ronald Reagan's successful 1984 presidential campaign.

FRANK GREER, a Democratic political consultant and political strategist who produced the media and advised the Clinton presidential campaign.

MARK CRISPIN MILLER, Hopkins' professor and media critic.

Nov. 8*
The View from Inside the White House
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, a senior advisor to President Clinton for policy and strategy, who was deputy campaign manager and director of communications for the Clinton/Gore 1992 presidential campaign.

GWEN IFILL, national correspondent for NBC News; formerly covered President Clinton for The New York Times; for seven years was political reporter for the Washington Post. From 1981 to 1984, she worked for the Baltimore Evening Sun.

Moderator: BENJAMIN GINSBERG, director, Johns Hopkins University Washington Center for the Study of American Government and professor of political science.

Nov. 15
The View from the Press Box
R.W. APPLE Jr., Washington bureau chief for the New York Times and one of this country's pre-eminent journalists; has written from more than 100 countries and covered six U.S. presidential campaigns. He recently accompanied President Clinton on his travels abroad.

ELEANOR CLIFT, contributing editor to Newsweek and regular panelist on CNN's McLaughlin Group and other television shows; has covered presidents from Carter to Clinton for Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times.

MORTON KONDRACKE, executive director of Roll Call, Capitol Hill's independent newspaper, panelist on the McLaughlin Group and formerly executive editor of the New Republic; calls himself a former liberal and now "the voice of sweet reason."

*Due to the nature of White House scheduling, this date may have to be changed at the last moment.

For media inquiries only, contact Ghita Levine at (410) 516-7160.