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October 29, 2004

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Elizabeth Edwards, wife of VP candidate John Edwards, discusses the significance of women voters. Foreign policy expert and Ronald Reagan scholar Dr. Kiron Skinner reflects on what Reagan might say about today's global docrine.


Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards

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Elizabeth Edwards is not just the wife of the Democratic VP candidate; she's clearly her own person. She's a distinguished lawyer and an advocate for children's and women's rights. She worked for the North Carolina Attorney General's office and at a prestigious Raleigh, NC law firm. She was also an adjunct instructor at the University of North Carolina law school. In addition to stumping for the Party's ticket, Edwards fundraises for the March of Dimes and is active in the Wade Edwards Foundation.


 

Dr. Kiron Skinner

Dr. Kiron Skinner

Dr. Kiron Skinner

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Foreign policy expert Dr. Kiron Skinner is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a Hoover Institution research fellow. The Harvard Ph.D. is also a protégé of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and sits on the U.S. Defense Policy Board and the board of the National Security Education Program. While doing research for George Shultz's memoir, Dr. Skinner became interested in the story of the end of the Cold War, and subsequently became a scholar on former President Ronald Reagan.