EVENT:	Pat Choate, the Reform Party vice presidential candidate, political economist and GW adjunct professor, will deliver an address on "Saving Representative Democracy."
WHEN:	Monday, October 21, 1996 1 p.m.
WHERE:	The George Washington University Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre 800 21st Street, NW Washington, D.C. (Foggy Bottom/GWU Metro, blue and orange lines)
COST:	Free and open to the public.

Background:

Pat Choate is a political economist, think tank strategist, populist spokesman, author, GW adjunct professor and now the Reform Party's vice presidential candidate. Choate, one of America's most widely recognized authorities on U.S. competitiveness, mana gement practices and public policy, is also a familiar figure of broadcast media. He has hosted "The Week Ahead," a weekly radio talk show carried on the United Broadcasting Network, a 300-station public affairs medium he co-founded earlier this year. Pre viously, Choate regularly appeared as a panelist on the PBS public policy shows "Technopolitics" and "Money Politics." He has been featured on such programs as "60 minutes," "Crossfire" and "MacNeil-Lehrer."

In addition to his media recognition, Choate has written six books and more than 200 articles and delivered more than 2,000 speeches on competitiveness, trade, education, training, technology, politics and public policy. He also teaches at The George Was hington University Graduate School of Political Management.

Choate teamed up with Reform Party presidential candidate Ross Perot in 1993 to co-author "Save Your Job, Save Our Country: Why NAFTA Must Be Stopped Now," which outlined the treaty's effects on America's working class and the status of Mexico's economy and society. Like all of Choate's books, "Save Your Job" was a singular work that has proved amazingly prescient.

Some of his other books include "Being Number One: Rebuilding the U.S. Economy" (1980), "America in Ruins" (1981), "The High Flex Society" (1988) and his most influential, "Thinking Strategically." When he published the investigative "Agents of Influenc e" in 1991, Choate was transformed from one of America's most regarded advisors into a fearless public advocate.

The son of a Texas sharecropper, Choate earned his doctoral degree in economics at the University of Oklahoma and later served as economic development director of that state. Eventually, Choate moved to Tennessee where he served on the Appalachian Regio nal Commission, the Southern Growth Policies Board and the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board. Later he became the southern regional director for the federal Economic Development Administration, then served in Washington as EDA's research director. In 1963 , Choate was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army and later discharged into the Reserve after developing adult diabetes. Now at the age of 55, Choate resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife.

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