Hutton Honors College

— Lincoln Discussion Panel

The Expansion of Executive Power from Lincoln to Obama

Discussion Panel with Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Charlie Savage
and IU History and Law Professor Michael Grossberg

February 10, 2009

How have the powers of the president of the United States expanded over U.S. history and what have been the consequences? Charlie Savage, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on presidential signing statements while working for The Boston Globe, and Michael Grossberg, the Sally M. Reahard Professor of History and an adjunct professor of law at IU as well as the co-director of the IU Center for Law, Society, and Culture, discussed this important topic in a public discussion panel that took place in the Whittenberger Auditorium of the IMU the week of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. This panel was organized by student group ABE at IU and was co-sponsored by the Center on American and Global Security, the Department of History, the Hutton Honors College, the Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, the Maurer School of Law, the Office of the Provost, the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, the Residence Hall Association, the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Union Board, and the Wells Scholars Program.

	Before participating in the panel discussion, New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Charlie Savage and IU history and law professor Michael Grossberg talk with HHC students Erin Chapman, Aasiya Mirza, Ian Thake, and Tarlie Townsend, members of the student group ABE at IU and organizers of the panel discussion.


	Savage and Grossberg talk about the powers of the U.S. president and how they have evolved over the history of the office.