Gov. Scott Walker, president of the Young America’s Foundation, will be the featured speaker at The Institute for Faith & Freedom at Grove City College’s 17th annual Ronald Reagan Lecture.
The former chief executive of Wisconsin will discuss “Ronald Reagan: The Man, the Movie, and the Movement” with Professor of Political Science Dr. Paul Kengor, the Institute’s senior director and chief academic fellow, and College President Paul J. McNulty ’80 at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in the auditorium of Crawford Hall on campus.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information, visit faithandfreedom.com.
The annual Ronald Reagan Lecture illumines the 40th president’s enduring contributions to America and the world. The goal of the Reagan Lecture is to promote the principles of faith and freedom that the iconic Republican president embodied and advanced during his political career.
This year’s lecture highlights the hit film “Reagan,” which is based on a Kengor book, in the context of the real life Reagan and the conservative movement he championed. Walker is both a product of that movement and a successful keeper of its legacy.
As governor of the Badger State from 2011 to 2019, he was “a model Reagan conservative,” Kengor said. Reforms he backed took power from the hands of big government special interests and put it into the hands of the people and local governments. The reforms saved taxpayers more than $16 billion dollars and drove critics to attempt to recall him in 2012. He won and became the first governor in American history to win a recall election.
As leader of the Young America’s Foundation, Walker plays a role in keeping Reagan’s memory alive for young conservatives through the organization’s custodianship of the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., where parts of the movie “Reagan” were filmed. Kengor said Walker was instrumental in facilitating the location shooting.