Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

The future of the conservative movement

Noted conservatives Ken Adelman, Susan Eisenhower, Jack Kemp and Mickey Edwards came together at the Aspen Ideas Festival to discsuss the state of the conservative movement, where it's fallen apart and how it can be restored.

Guests

• Jack Kemp: Former Republican congressman, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George H.W. Bush and Republican candidate for Vice President in 1996.
• Susan Eisenhower: President of the Eisenhower Group, co-editor of "Islam and Central Asia: An Enduring Legacy or and Evolving Threat?" and granddaughter of former President Dwight Eisenhower.
• Ken Adelman: Former assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the Ford administration, former deputy U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations and director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Reagan administration, and national editor of Washingtonian magazine.
• Mickey Edwards: Former Republican Congressman, former national chairman of the American Conservative Union and author of "Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost--And How It Can Find Its Way Back."

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Resources

• Aspen Ideas Festival
• Share your thoughts on the future of the Republican Party
• About Mickey Edwards
• About Susan Eisenhower
• About Ken Adelman
• About Jack Kemp