Washington Associates News Service

Washington DC News
October 18, 2006
Pressler Speaks at the Citadel

(Charleston, South Carolina) “Your speeches inspired the classes at the Citadel,” said a prominent Citadel professor of Senator Larry Pressler’s (Ret.) visit to the Citadel this week. “Our students rarely get a chance to listen to someone who has actually been in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. Your twenty-two years of experience in Congress really came to life in your lectures here. “

The Citadel is considered one of the finest four year universities in the United States. It has a military tradition, but today grants a liberal arts degree. About one-third of the Citadels graduates go directly into business, another one-third go into the military, and the other third go to graduate school.

Senator Pressler lectured in government, international relations, and public policy classes while he was there. He also lectured in a seminar to sophomores and juniors interested in applying for graduate fellowships.

Pressler’s appearance at the Citadel came via the invitation of Ambassador Phillip Lader former U.S. Ambassador to England. Lader was head of the small Business Administration while Pressler was Chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Small Business Committee. Lader now holds a part-time professorship at the Citadel.

“Speaking at the Citadel and interacting with the students there really cheered me up about the future of the country. My ‘fun’ time these days is going out to universities and speaking. The Citadel has produced so many great national leaders. I was tremendously honored to speak there.”

Pressler has lectured or spoken at over 40 universities since leaving the Senate in 1997. He was the Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Scholar at West Point this fall. As such, he lectured to classes and mingled with cadets.