McConnell to Discuss 'Henry Clay: Kentucky Titan'

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 5, 2012) — U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will visit the University of Kentucky on Thursday, Sept. 6, to give a speech titled "Henry Clay: Kentucky Titan."  

 

McConnell’s visit is being hosted by UK’s Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce and the Friends of Ashland (The Henry Clay Estate). The speech will take place at 6 p.m. in the William T. Young Library Auditorium. It will also be broadcast at a later date on KET and C-SPAN. McConnell will be introduced by UK President Eli Capilouto.

 

McConnell will also meet informally in a private session with Patterson School students to discuss Burma (also known as Myanmar) and other key foreign policy issues. McConnell visited the country in January and met with dissident leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.  McConnell sponsored the renewal of Burma sanctions legislation, passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives and signed by President Obama in August, to maintain pressure on the Burmese government to continue democratic reforms.  

 

Patterson School students have tracked developments in Burma closely, visiting a special exhibit on Burmese "blood rubies" at Chicago’s Field Museum last spring and bringing to campus last August the Burmese activist and National League of Democracy supporter Myo Myint.

 

 

MEDIA CONTACT: Keith Hautala, (859) 323-2396; keith.hautala@uky.edu