CNN's Candy Crowley Addresses The Adcraft Club

The nation’s red hot political scene takes center stage when CNN’s Candy Crowley addresses the Adcraft Club on Wednesday, April 21. One of the most visible and highly respected national political correspondents, Candy Crowley has been a fixture at CNN since 1987 when she joined the network from NBC News. Based in CNN’s Washington bureau, Crowley also hosts “State of the Union with Candy Crowley”, the network’s political hour of newsmaker interviews and analysis.

As senior political correspondent, Crowley covers a broad range of stories, including presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races and major legislative developments on Capitol Hill. She has covered the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Bob Dole, Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan and Paul Tsongas, among others. She was also granted an exclusive sit-down interview with President George W. Bush days before he left office.

Her reporting has earned many awards and honors, among them the Edward R. Murrow award and the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in journalism, the Gracie Allen Award in the “National News Story-Series” category for “War Stories”, an Emmy for her work on CNN Presents Enemy Within, the DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award for her coverage of the impeachment and trial of President Bill Clinton, and two Dirksen Awards for distinguished reporting on Congress from the National Press Foundation.

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When: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 12 Noon
Where: The San Marino Club, 1635 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy (map)
Tickets: $35 Adcraft Members; $40 Non-members; $25 Junior members (under age 25); $20 Students (with Student I.D.)