George Allen, former Virginia congressman, governor and U.S. Senator, spoke at the Law School’s Caplin Pavilion yesterday evening.
Allen, who completed his undergraduate education at the University in 1974 and graduated from the Law School in 1977, discussed his new book, “What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports.”
Virginia Law and Graduate Republicans and College Republicans co-sponsored the event — which drew an audience of about 50 people — with the Law School.
“He’s polled well in Virginia for the last couple of decades,” said Gary Lawkowski, president of Law and Graduate Republicans. “We wanted to get his thoughts on the current political situation.”
The self-described “common sense, Jeffersonian conservative,” whose father was a Hall of Fame coach in the National Football League, used sports analogies to frame his discussion of politics and governance in his book.
“When you think about Washington, there’s hardly anything that anyone’s cheering about,” he said. “I thought, what are the principles of sports that could be applied to government?”
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