The 2003 Panetta Lecture Series focused on “Governing in Crisis -- The Role of the Presidency, the Congress and the People.” A special forum included President William Jefferson Clinton. Other guest speakers included Al Hunt, Executive Washington Editor of theWall Street Journal; Mark Shields, moderator of CNN’s The Capital Gang; Tom Foley and Newt Gingrich, former Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives; James Carville, former presidential advisor and political consultant; Mary Matalin, former assistant to the President and counselor to the Vice President; Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winning author and presidential historian; and David Gergen, veteran presidential advisor and author.