Lecture

LOCATION

All January lectures are from 10:00 - 11:00 AM and are held in the Spring Valley Building, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, in Room A on the First Floor.

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

Due to limited seating, reservations through Eventbrite are required to attend lectures. 

Member Reservations: We e-mail the registration link to current members at 8:30 AM on the Tuesday preceding the next week’s lectures. 

Non-Member Reservations: We e-mail the registration link to non-members at 8:30 AM on the Wednesday preceding the next week’s lectures. The registration link is also placed at that time on the website.

Each registrant may reserve one seat. Your name must be on the list of registrants to enter the lecture and you must be in your seat five minutes before the lecture starts to guarantee your seat. Visit https://www.olli-dc.org/lecture_series_overview for more information.

THURSDAY January 24, 2019—Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Life and Times

How did the United States go from “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country” to “Make America Great Again “and “America First”? Townsend, oldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, talks about the Kennedy family, its legacy, and the state of the Democratic Party. 

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the former two-term lieutenant governor of Maryland. She ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 1984 and for governor of Maryland in 2002. Townsend holds a law degree and is the author of Failing America’s Faithful: How today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way. She is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.