Lessons in Leadership from Howard Baker. Fifty years after Richard Nixon’s resignation, the life example of the Republican vice chair of the Senate Watergate Committee still resonates.
Ira Shapiro and Keel Hunt
Ira Shapiro is a former Senate staffer, Clinton administration trade ambassador, and the author of a trilogy of books about the Senate, most recently The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America (2022).
Keel Hunt is the author of four books and is working on a fifth about the long friendship of Baker and Nashville editor John L. Seigenthaler. Since 2013, he has been a columnist for The Tennessean in Nashville and the USA Today Tennessee network.
