Eisenhower Institute to Host Chris Matthews at Gettysburg College
"I watch him on Hardball and am looking forward to listening to his passionate words in person," said Eisenhower Undergraduate Fellow Marc Fialkoff.
Matthews hosts Hardball with Chris Matthews Monday through Friday on MSNBC; The Chris Matthews Show on NBC; and appears as a regular commentator on NBC's Today. He has distinguished himself as a broadcast journalist, newspaper bureau chief, presidential speechwriter, and bestselling author. Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa, the Good Friday Peace Accord in Northern Ireland, and the funeral of Pope John Paul II, as well as every American presidential election campaign since the 1980s.
Matthews had a fifteen year career in public service. He worked in the U.S. Senate for five years for Senator Frank Moss of Utah and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine, then in the White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a presidential speechwriter, and on the President's Reorganization Project, followed by six years as the top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. Matthews also worked for fifteen years as a newspaper journalist, spending thirteen years as a Washington bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner and two as a national columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.
He has received the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and the Gold Medal Award from the Pennsylvania Society. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics and holds nineteen honorary degrees.
Matthews has authored four best-selling books, including New York Times best sellers American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions (2002) and Now, Let me Tell What I Really Think (2001). Matthew's latest book, Life's a Campaign, was released in 2007.