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LeaderTrips
Taking Leadership Studies on the Road

"There's no better way to learn about our heritage," says Hauenstein Center Director Gleaves Whitney, "than getting out and exploring the places where history was made."  Since, 2005, Hauenstein Center faculty, staff, and students have taken trips around the country to learn from our nation's greatest leaders — living and dead.  Presidential libraries, national historic sites, and political, economic, and cultural capitals give us a glimpse into the lives, careers, and insights of legendary and contemporary leaders, from Washington to Lincoln to Obama.
 
Past LeaderTrips:
West Branch, IA, 2009
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum
 
Boston, MA, 2009
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, Boston's Freedom Trail
 
Washington, DC, 2008
George W. Bush Conference, National Mall, National Holocaust Museum
 
Springfield, IL, 2008
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, Historic Springfield, Lincoln Tomb

Beatrice, NE, 2007
Homestead National Monument, Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum, Bryan Home

Springfield, IL, 2007
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, Historic Springfield, Historic New Salem

Lansing, MI, 2006
Meetings with the Governor, State Superintendent, Majority Leader, and more

Notre Dame, IN, 2006
Notre Dame campus tour and meeting with Father Theodore Hesburgh

Springfield, IL, 2005
Lincoln Museum and speeches by President Bush, Senator Obama, Governor Blagojevich

Atlanta, GA, 2005
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum

Texas, 2005
George Bush Presidential Museum, Lyndon Johnson Presidential Museum, Federal Reserve
 
 
A Gateway to Presidential History 
The Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, within walking distance of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and within a day's drive of six other presidential libraries and museums.  Also within a day's drive are more than two-thirds of the nation's presidential historic sites and five of seven presidential pilgrimage sites:
  • Washington, DC/Mount Vernon
  • Philadelphia/Valley Forge
  • Springfield/New Salem
  • Williamsburg/Yorktown
  • Charlottesville/Monticello
No presidential studies center has faster access to archives and libraries honoring Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford Hayes, William McKinley, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.


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