Our guest today is Mr. Doug Garr, an author, writer, editorial consultant, speechwriter and former Editorial Director of the New York State Urban Development Corporation. Doug, a graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications has written for magazines, newspapers, and CEOs of companies like, JP Morgan, Hewlett-Packard, and Network Appliances. He has written books on Lou Gerstner of IBM, investing, and Silicon Valley. He wrote economic speeches for former Governor Mario Cuomo, and he is currently working on two new books. He has a life-long interest in politics.

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The Advocates will focus on “Presidential Politics in the Post FDR Era.”
Mr. Garr and I will discuss some of the pivotal elections, which include the following:

• Truman- Dewey-Wallace-Thurmond, 1948
• Eisenhower –Stevenson, 1952
• Kennedy-Nixon, 1960
• Nixon-Humphrey-Wallace, 1968
• Carter-Ford, 1976
• Reagan-Carter-Anderson, 1980
• Clinton-Bush-Perot , 1992
• Bush-Gore, 2000