MEDIA CONTACT: Kristine McGrath
561-297-1168, kmcgrath@fau.edu

Presidential Aide Bradley Patterson to Speak at FAU Distinguished Lecture Series on American Presidency

BOCA RATON, FL (January 21, 2005) - Former senior aide to three U.S. Presidents, Bradley Patterson will speak on Thursday, January 27 as part of Florida Atlantic University's Distinguished Lecture Series on the American Presidency. He will primarily speak on the recollections of his tenure inside of the White House.

Patterson's lecture will begin on Thursday, January 27 at 9:45 a.m. on FAU's Jupiter campus at the Abacoa Crown Theater, 4688 Main Street, Jupiter and at 6:30 p.m. at FAU's Boca Raton campus, Lifelong Learning Auditorium, 777 Glades Rd.

Patterson has lived and worked in Washington D.C. for 55 years, fourteen of them in the White House, where he served on the staff of Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford. He also worked in the Department of State, the Peace Corps, the Department of the Treasury and the Brookings Institution. Recently, he served as national president of the American Society for Public Administration and is a senior fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Patterson is the author of The White House Staff: Inside the West Wing and Beyond (2000) and The Ring of Power: The White House Staff and its Expanding Role in Government (1988).

The cost for the lecture series is $55 for Lifelong Learning Society members, $75 for non-members and $10 for each individual lecture. Seating is limited. For more information on the series at Boca Raton, call 561-297-6902. For more information on the series in Jupiter, call 561-799-8547.

-FAU-