Presidential Candidates To Speak at Harvard

Series will include six of 10 Democrats

By JEFFREY C. AGUERO and DANIEL J. HEMEL
Crimson Staff Writer

Chris Matthews will bring “Hardball” back to Harvard this fall—and this time, at least six of the 10 Democratic presidential candidates will square off with the notoriously combative political pundit.

Beginning with Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., on Monday, Oct. 13, MSNBC’s Matthews will conduct a one-on-one interview with each of the candidates in the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum in a special series of the show entitled “Hardball: Battle for the White House.”

After the interview, Harvard students, professors and others will have the chance to question the candidates on live national television

Four candidates—retired Gen. Wesley Clark, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.—have yet to R.S.V.P., according to Institute of Politics (IOP) Director Dan Glickman.

“We want them all to come,” said Glickman, a former nine-term representative from Kansas who served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Clinton, from 1995 to 2001.

Only scheduling difficulties have prevented the final four from signing on to the series, Glickman said.

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