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Message From: Sent: To: Subject: Cato Institute [events@cato.org] 6/8/2018 6:34:38 PM Beck, Nancy [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=168ecb5184ac44de95a913297f353745-Beck, Nancy] Jeffrey Rosen and Doug Ginsburg on presidents and the Constitution, June 15 The Cato Institute invites you to a Book Forum on Friday, June 15, 2018. Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00045546-00001 William Howard Taft: The Last Constitutional Presidency? A special discussion of the newly released book William Howard Taft (American Presidents Series -- Times Books, 2018) EVENT INFORMATION Date: June 15, 2018 featuring the author Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO, National Constitution Center with comments by Hon, Douglas H, Ginsburg, Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia moderated by Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute RSVP to the event Time: 12:00PM - 1 :30PM (Luncheon to follow) Cost: Free of charge Location: Cato Institute 1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20001 (map) Our 27th president, William Howard Taft, has been relegated to a historical afterthought, if not a punchline. If he's remembered at all, it's for his enormous girth and periodic difficulties with bathtubs. Yet in this slim volume on our largest president, Jeffrey Rosen argues that Taft has much to teach us today. Our "most judicial president," who later served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, shared the Framers' conception of the presidency as a constitutional rather than a popular office. In his single presidential term and his failed bid for reelection in the pivotal 1912 race, Taft staunchly opposed Teddy Roosevelt's "stewardship" theory of the office, which empowered the president "to do anything that the needs of the nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or the laws." The president's authority, Taft countered, is limited to what the Constitution and the laws specifically grant, and to hold otherwise would lead to an imperial presidency. R E G IS T E R Purchase Book Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00045546-00002 In his reluctance to rule by executive order or wage war without Congress -- and in his resistance to popular passions -- Taft serves both as a model of what a constitutional presidency could be and a reminder of the challenges facing that model in the modern era. Please join us on June 15th for a lively discussion of the Taft legacy and what we can learn from it today. Share Tweet +1 if you can't make it to the event, watch it Live Online and join the conversation on Twitter using #CafoEvents. Follow @ CaioEvents on Twitter to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute. Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00045546-00003 Support Cato Follow Cato on: Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00045546-00004 Cato Institute 1000 Massachusetts Ave, N W * Washington, D.C. 20001 Phone (2 0 2 )8 4 2 0200i Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00045546-00005