Diane Blair

(Communication) has been asked to serve on the National Task Force on The Presidency and Democratic Deliberation.

The goal of the task force and five others is to produce a report for presentation in March 2004 at the 10 th Annual Conference on Presidential Rhetoric to be held at the George Bush Presidential Library. Ultimately these reports will be published in a conference volume to be published by Texas A&M. Blair is a nationally recognized expert on First Lady rhetoric with a speciality in the discourse of Eleanor Roosevelt.