On October 25, The Transition to Governing Project hosted a discussion of Preparing to Be President: The Memos of Richard E. Neustadt, edited by Charles O. Jones. Neustadt spoke about the upcoming presidential transition as well as the memos he wrote to aid Kennedy, Reagan, and Clinton. He was joined by a panel of former transition officials, and journalists and scholars who have written about presidential transitions.
| Introduction: | Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute |
| | Thomas E. Mann, Brookings Institution |
| Featured Speaker: | Richard E. Neustadt, Harvard University |
| Panelists: | C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering |
| | Reed Hundt, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission |
| | Charles O. Jones, University of Wisconsin |
| | Ruth Marcus, deputy national editor, Washington Post |
| | Nelson Polsby, Heller Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley |
| | Hedrick Smith, Hedrick Smith Productions |
| | Hon. Harris Wofford, CEO, Corporation for National Service |


