David Brady, Hoover deputy director and senior fellow, discussed the 2008 presidential election as well as two of the task forces (1) Procedural Reform of Government and (2) Economic Development.

Michael Boskin, Hoover senior fellow, who offered some perspective on the American economy in his presentation, “Challenges Confronting the American Economy.”

Hoover research fellow Russell Roberts discussed income inequality, the current economic situation, and standard of living in “Class Warfare as an Election Issue: The Economics of Income Inequality.”

In “Challenges Abroad Won’t Go Away with President Bush,” Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, analyzed issues associated with the president that actually predate him.

Joseph Ellis, one of the nation’s foremost scholars of American history and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, who spoke on “The American Founding: How to Tell the Story.”