Corinne Frugoni, one of the hosts of Through the Eyes of Women, will interview Caldicott on Monday, Oct. 20, from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m.
Caldicott is founder and president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute and has pursued an international campaign for 35 years to educate the public about nuclear threats to health and advocate changes in human behavior to curb environmental destruction. She has been the subject of several films, including Eight Minutes to Midnight and If You Love This Planet.
Humboldt State University spokesman Paul Mann, a 20-year White House correspondent and a member of the White House Correspondents Association and the National Press Club, will interview long-time friend and colleague Thomas on Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Thomas traveled the world with U.S. Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton. In February, 1972, she was the only newspaperwoman to journey with President Nixon on his breakthrough trip to China.
Mann, a former world affairs reporter for a weekly professional journal, traveled with Thomas on presidential trips and filed dispatches from Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Asia, India and South America, as well as the White House. Both Thomas and Mann covered 9/11 in Washington and Mann also covered the aftermath from London. He is a former Washington bureau chief and managing editor.
They will discuss the presidential campaign and the upcoming elections, the future of the American presidency and Thomas’s latest book about the nation’s capital, Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public.
Currently a columnist for Hearst Newspapers, Thomas is the recipient of more than 30 honorary degrees and a much published author. She wrote Dateline: White House and Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President, among others.
Thomas has also authored children’s books, including most recently The Great White House Breakout, with political cartoonist Chip Bok.
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