Second Acts: Presidential Legacies in Action with Jeff Polet

Join us on Tuesday, August 5, at 6 p.m., for an engaging conversation with Jeff Polet, director of the Ford Leadership Forum at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. In a period of divisiveness, Polet will explore President Ford's legacy of healing a divided nation through cooperation, civil discourse, patriotism, and integrity.

Presidential sites serve as hubs for democracy and civic engagement, and they encourage public service that improves communities. Polet will discuss how the Ford Leadership Forum encourages virtue-based leadership through educational programs and partnerships that emphasize civil dialogue, bipartisan cooperation, public service, and ethical decision-making.

The program will be available on our YouTube channel the following day.

ASL interpretation is available during our events.

This program is presented by the Clinton Foundation.

More about the speaker

Jeff Polet is Director of the Ford Leadership Forum at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Hope College. He is a Senior Fellow at The Russell Kirk Center of Cultural Renewal and board member of Front Porch Republic. He has published broadly in both academic and popular venues on topics such as education, American democracy, contemporary European political thought, American political thought, religion and politics, and other topics. He lives in an empty nest in West Michigan with his wife of forty years.