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You’ve gathered around the dinner table for a nice family meal. Everyone is enjoying the home cooking when someone mentions a recent news headline about a candidate for president. Someone else points out that the media is just out to get that candidate. The conversation quickly devolves into fighting, hurt feelings, and someone storming off angrily. Dinner is ruined. Again.

American democracy is built around the participation of its citizens. Not just in voting, but in disagreement, discourse, and the exchange of ideas in the pursuit of building a more perfect union. The Founding Fathers didn’t agree on every topic, and neither will we. And neither should we.

Disagreement doesn’t have to ruin the family dinner, though. As we charge toward the 2024 elections, this Engage at the Bush Center event presented by NexPoint will show us how standing up for firmly-held beliefs and passionate civil discourse is not only possible, but encouraged – as long as it is built atop a foundation of respect and understanding that our political opponents are not our enemies.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox, a Republican, and Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, will advance the lively and highly entertaining conversation Governor Cox recently began on the importance of “disagreeing better.” Don’t miss the program Governor Cox and Governor Kelly believe can save your family dinners.

Award-winning TODAY show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie takes the Bush Center stage on Feb. 15 to discuss her new book, Mostly What God Does. Guthrie, who has been with NBC News since 2007 – including a stint as White House correspondent during the George W. Bush Presidency – describes the book as “certainly the most personal and vulnerable thing I’ve ever done.”

In this collection of essays, Guthrie shares why she believes that in these uncertain times, believing in the power of divine love makes the most sense. Our audience will hear personal stories from her own joys and sorrows as a daughter, mother, wife, friend, and professional journalist. Charlotte Jones will moderate what is sure to be an inspiring and entertaining conversation.

You may purchase up to two tickets with a minimum of one book.

A panel of former White House social secretaries will share insights and behind-the-scenes stories about entertaining at the White House. From State Dinners to picnics on the South Lawn, the experts will discuss the importance of the White House as a stage for hospitality and diplomacy.

Anita McBride, former Assistant to President Bush and Chief of Staff to Mrs. Laura Bush, will moderate a conversation with Jeremy Bernard, former White House Social Secretary to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama; Gahl Hodges Burt, former White House Social Secretary to President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan; and Amy Zantzinger, former White House Social Secretary to President Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush.