The Tom McCall Forum
Pacific University sponsored the annual Tom McCall Forum for 25 years, bringing together liberal and conservative figures to debate issues of national importance. Forum participants and topics included:
- 1982
Cal Thomas and Sam Brown
The Moral Majority: A Debate - 1983
Mulford Q. Sibley, Howard Phillips and Admiral Noel Gayler
Total Disarmament: Hope, Hoax or Utopia? - 1984
William F. Buckley Jr. and Dick Clark
America’s Future: Is Liberal Politics Dead? - 1985
George McGovern and James Watt
Economic & Environmental Progress: Is There a Free Lunch After All? - 1986
Andrew Young and Arthur Laffer
Reagan’s Stewardship of the Economy - 1987
Robert McNamara and Zbingniew Brzezinski
Preventing Nuclear War: The ‘Star Wars’ Option - 1988
Pat Schroeder and Jeane Kirkpatrick
American Foreign Policy in the 1990s: Who is the Enemy? -
1989
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Robert Bork
Law of the Land: Politics in Courts? - 1990
Carl Bernstein and Michael Deaver
Media in U.S. Politics: Powerbroker or Pawn? - 1991
Geraldine Ferraro and William Bennett
Leadership in the 1990s: Democracy and the National Conscience - 1992
Jesse Jackson and Peter Ueberroth
American Cities: An Agenda for the Next President - 1994
Pierre Salinger and John Sununu
The President and the Press: Who Sets the Agenda - 1995
James Carville and William Safire
Conservation and the Future of the GOP - 1996
Mario Cuomo and Lynn Martin
From New Hampshire to November: Values vs. Votes - 1997
Dan Quayle and Robert Kennedy Jr
Striking the Balance: The Economy and the Environmentalist - 1998
Haley Barbour and Leon Panetta
Money and Politics - 1999
C. Everett Koop and Joseph Califano
Health Care: Right or Responsibility - 2000
Mary Matalin and James Carville
Leadership for the 21st Century: Campaign 2000 - 2001
Alan Dershowitz and Ralph Reed
Religion, Politics and the Constitution - 2002
Newt Gingrich and Ralph Nader
Who Rules America? Power in the New Millennium - 2003
Bill Bradley and David Gergen
Assessing the Bush Presidency: 9/11 to Enron - 2004
Molly Ivins and William Kristol
Election 2004: Winners and Losers - 2005
Howard Dean and Richard Perle
American Foreign Policy Post–9/11 - 2006
Tom Daschle and Pat Buchanan
Democracy at the Crossroads: Does Our System Work - 2007
Lee Hamilton and John Bolton
U.S. Foreign Policy Post-’08