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The second speaker in the series is Jim Wright, speaking about "Reflections on America's Obligations to Those Who Have Fought Its Wars." James Wright is President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Wright, an American historian, served as Dartmouth's President for over a decade, and has been a member of its faculty since 1969. He has been featured in the New York Times and on ABC News, and has been recognized for his achievements by the New England Council, the Council of College and Military Educators, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the United States Marines, among countless others. Wright's new book, "Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them," was published this spring.

The 2012 Summer Speaker Series is co-sponsored by Ms. Mimi Baird, Dartmouth College, Fairpoint Communications, King Arthur Flour, Ledyard Bank, National Life Group, National Notary Association, NBT Bank, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth, New England Business Journals, Rutland Herald, Mr. & Mrs. David Spalding, Times Argus, Tuck School of Business, Union Mutual of Vermont Companies, Wild Apple Graphics, and The Woodstock Inn.

Free and open to the public.

For more information, visit www.calvin-coolidge.org or http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/events/programs.html, or call the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation at 802-672-3389.

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