After an introduction by President George Bush saying that Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels would have been a good candidate for presidency, Daniels spoke to a surprisingly small audience to promote his new book, “Keeping the Republic.”
There were only about 40 SMU colleagues and students at the event, which was sponsored by the SMU Tower Center for Political Studies and took place Friday.
Daniels answered several questions by students, most noteably on the debt crisis, calling it the “central issue and challenge of our time” and should be our central focus that we should unify around. He spoke of his position on social welfare programs, saying that they were designed for a different era. Daniels went on to say, “if we keep going with this we will kill the American promise and will lose our entire leadership.”
