January 27, 1981 - Governor Al Quie addressed a joint session of the Minnesota legislature on the state of the economy, broadcast live.
February 17, 1981 - Former Vice President Walter Mondale discusses the office of the Vice Presidency and his experience as Vice President in Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. This is the first of three speeches as part of the Mondale Lectures.
March 4, 1981 - Former Vice President Walter Mondale discusses domestic policy and the current state of American liberalism in this lecture given at the College of Saint Thomas in St. Paul. This is the third (final) of three speeches as part of the Mondale Lectures.
March 11, 1981 - James Callaghan, former British prime minister, speaking at the Carlson Lecture Series, held at University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Callaghan’s address was on his late friend, Hubert Humphrey, and their similar politics. Callaghan was born in 1912. He entered the British Civil Service in 1929 as a tax officer. He was elected to Parliament in 1945 as a Labor Party member, and he has held a Parliamentary seat for 36 years. Callaghan has also served as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, and he played a key role in negotiating Britain's membership in the Common Market. He was elected Prime Minister in 1976. After leaving that office, he was reelected leader of Britain's Labor Party. He stepped down from that role in 1980.
March 13, 1981 - Don W. Larson, senior editor of Corporate Report magazine, speaking in Duluth. Larson’s shares his critical views on business in Minnesota and the United States.
April 10, 1981 - Father Theodore Hesburgh is chairman of the presidential Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy. The commission has presented its final report to Congress and the President and it will soon be brought before Congressional committees for hearings. Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame, addresses the topic "Immigration and Refugees: We need a national policy now" in his speech at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis .
April 11, 1981 - Peter G. Peterson, former United States secretary of commerce speaking at the Women's Economic Roundtable. Peterson’s address is on the Reagan consensus.
April 15, 1981 - Governor Al Quie delivers his second revised budget, with new spending cus and tax increase proposals, DFL leaders respond to the Governor's address.
May 18, 1981 - Governor Al Quie announces his intention to veto the oMinnesotaibus tax bill passed in the House, as well as the bonus tax bill passed by the Senate.
May 29, 1981 - James Gustave Speth, senior fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, speaking at the Humphrey Institute about measures to alleviate the increase of CO2. Speth’s address is titled "Carbon Dioxide Buildup: The Case for Limited Action.” Speth is former chairman of the president's Council on Environmental Quality during the Carter administration.