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The LBJ School will host an advance screening of the major motion picture LBJ, with special guests Rob Reiner, the film’s director, and Woody Harrelson, the actor who plays Lyndon B. Johnson. 

The LBJ School of Public Affairs co-sponsored the fourth annual Texas National Security Forum at The University of Texas at Austin. Presented by the Intelligence Studies Project, the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Clements Center for National Security, “Alliances and Partnerships in American National Security” drew leading experts on defense, intelligence, diplomacy and international financial policy and featured keynote speaker Michael Pompeo, current CIA director.

AUSTIN, Texas — Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, FAAN and former acting deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will join the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs this fall as dean’s distinguished fellow. Wakefield’s appointment is a joint appointment with the School of Nursing where she will serve as visiting professor and distinguished fellow of the Joseph H. Blades Centennial Memorial Professorship in Nursing.