The day after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson sent a memo to his staff that made it clear the organization would roll up its sleeves and get to work.
The Institute enjoyed widespread access to Obama administration officials in its various programs in Aspen and Washington, D.C. But it’s unclear whether Trump officials will be willing to participate in programs run by a nonpartisan organization that seeks bipartisan solutions to problems.
Isaacson has been president of the Institute for 14 years and is a former managing editor of Time Magazine and former chairman and chief executive of the CNN News Group. He made it clear he’s up for new challenges.
“Let me just say that it makes our mission all the more important,” Isaacson wrote to his staff Nov. 9. “We need to lay the ground for a new generation that understands enduring values, respects all people and seeks to find solutions and new ideas to make all of our lives better in a changing world.”
Read more about what Isaacson had to say on .
![[prison 19] Caption: This is Cellhouse 1, Pod A, from ground level inside the Sterling Correctional Facility which is located outside of Sterling, Colorado Thursday afternoon. Photographer: LEW SHERMAN Title: FREELANCE Credit: SPECIAL TO THE POST City: Sterling State: CO Country: USA Date: 19990617 ObjectName: prison 19 Keyword: PUBDATE____1999_06_22](/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20151207__denverpostp1.jpg?w=538 "20151207__denverpost~p1.jpg")
