🐦 Sept 21 at 11 AM - Bernie Sanders to deliver lecture at Westminster College [View all]

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will deliver the John Findley Green Foundation lecture at Westminster College in Fulton, joining the list of world leaders including Winston Churchill, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan who have traveled to the small college to make a major speech on world affairs.

Sanders’ unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 left a legacy of political activism among young progressives and he is viewed as a potential contender for the 2020 nomination. He will outline a vision for a progressive American foreign policy in his speech, Westminster spokesman Rob Crouse said.

The lecture was announced Friday afternoon by acting President Carolyn Perry and symposium Director Kurt Jefferson in a broadcast on Facebook. Sanders will lecture at 11 a.m. on Sept. 21.


The Green Foundation is named for a St. Louis attorney who graduated from Westminster in 1884. Established in 1936, the foundation provides for lectures designed to promote understanding of economic and social problems of international concern. It further provides that “the speaker shall be a person of international reputation.”

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