Dee Dee Myers, Karl Rove to speak May 17 at Cornell College

Former presidential advisers Karl Rove and Dee Dee Myers will share their insights on the presidential election in a lecture next week at Cornell College.

The lecture, free and open to the public, will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. Rove and Myers will address the Republican and Democratic points of view in a Delta Phi Rho lecture “Election 2012: Two Perspectives.”

The event will be moderated by Cornell politics Professor Craig Allin. Rove and Myers will offer insiders' analysis on the candidates and the White House, including issues ranging from healthcare to the economy and foreign policy.

The lecture will be followed by a book signing in Cole Library.

Rove, widely considered the architect of George W. Bush's presidential victories in 2000 and 2004, served as senior adviser to Bush from 2000 to 2007 and as deputy chief of staff from 2004 to 2007. While at the White House, Rove was deputy chief of staff for policy, coordinating the White House policy-making process.

Myers was the first woman and one of the youngest people ever to serve as White House press secretary. During the first years of the Clinton administration, Myers explained the actions of the new president to the press corps and the nation.

This is the fifth lecture funded by Cornell's Delta Phi Rho Centennial Endowment. Previous speakers were Bob Woodward, Fareed Zakaria, George Stephanopoulos and David Gergen. A group of Delt alumni created the lecture series to contribute to the intellectual capital of the college and the community.

Accessibility note: an elevator will be installed in King Chapel by fall 2012. In the interim the building is not wheelchair accessible.