Landau is recognized as one of America’s foremost experts of the presidency and White House protocol. Named “Best Collector” by Reader’s Digest in 2006, Landau leads in collecting Presidential artifacts and memorabilia.

Landau’s total collection of more than one million items, including the original key to the White House, has provided him with a tremendous working knowledge that makes him increasingly valuable to the first families he continues to serve. Landau has served nine U.S. presidents and has planned historic events with every White House since Lyndon Johnson’s. For more than 40 years, he has brought his expertise to producing thousands of presidential events in the U.S. and abroad, forging alliances with both heads of state and royalty. He has been a frequent network commentator on matters relating to the presidency on ABC, CBS, BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, including Good Morning America and The Martha Stewart Show.

Landau has served on numerous presidential commissions, including every Inaugural Committee since 1965. He travels throughout the U.S. lecturing on the history of White House protocol and on his own life experiences with the rich and famous. He is president of Barry Landau Productions, a multi-media company, and divides his time between New York City and Washington.

Barry Landau with his collection featuring President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

How Landau got started is just as remarkable as his collection! According to a January 14, 2005 article by the Washington Post, “Landau’s fascination with the presidency began when he was 10 and his mother took him from their home on Long Island to Manhattan to see President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he said. He recalls getting close enough to speak to the president and to tell Mamie Eisenhower how beautiful she was. He said that the first lady invited him to the White House and that he went with his mother, sharpening pencils in the Oval Office while waiting for the president to make his entrance.” The rest is history--that which he'll share at our September 30 event. Copies of Landau's signed book, titled "The President's Table: 200 Years of Dining and Diplomacy," (cover pictured below and linked to site with page access) will be available for purchase at the event.

• $135 per person to attend the private reception at the museum with Mr. Landau, includes dinner and program at the Conrad Indianapolis
• $100 per person to attend dinner and program at the Conrad Indianapolis only
• $800 Patron table of 8 includes dinner and program at the Conrad Indianapolis. Name listed in the event program.
• $1,080 Patron Plus table of 8 includes private reception at the museum with Mr. Landau, dinner and program at the Conrad Indianapolis. Name listed in the event program.
• $1,250 Corporate table of 8 includes private reception at the museum with Mr. Landau, dinner and program at the Conrad Indianapolis. Also, public exposure of corporate name in event program, prominent event and table signage, and listing on museum web site.

The MARY TUCKER JASPER SPEAKER SERIES is made possible through a restricted fund provided by the family of the late Mary Tucker Jasper to support an annual series of lectures. The Fund was provided to honor Mary Tucker Jasper and support increased awareness of President Benjamin Harrison’s role as our “President from Indiana,” and to promote educational opportunities and fund raising support of the President Benjamin Harrison Home.

Past speakers have included: Brian Lamb, founder/CEO of C-SPAN Networks; Donna Climenhage, curator of the comprehensive collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany works at the Morse Museum; Pat Stone, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul: 101 Stories to Make the Heart Bloom; and Donna McCreary, portraying Mary Todd Lincoln.

MARY TUCKER JASPER was a 75-year member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter. She loved history and gardening and was interested in the President Benjamin Harrison Home at an early age. Her mother, Myrtle Mitchell Tucker, was the first woman high school principal in the State of Indiana. Her husband, Paul George Jasper, was the youngest Supreme Court Justice elected to Supreme Court of Indiana.

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2010 Mary Tucker Jasper Speaker Series Steering Committee