What would you ask Presidential daughter Susan Ford Bales and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham?

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A presidential daughter plus a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian are in town today.

Susan Ford Bales, daughter of President Gerald R. Ford, will introduce Jon Meacham, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, during a noon appearance at Grand Valley State University.

Meacham, winner Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Andrew Jackson, will discuss his latest book ?Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power.?

Meacham?s lecture at Grand Valley State University Eberhard Center in downtown Grand Raids is sold out.

But I?ll be there, and you can follow the discussion with my comments from the program, sponsored by GVSU?s Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies and the Gerald R. Ford Foundation.

I also expect to chat this morning with Bales, the youngest child and only daughter of President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.

Do you have any questions you?d like to ask her? Email me at jkaczmarczyk@mlive.com or add them to the comments below by 10:30 a.m.

The latest book by Meacham, a former Newsweek, has been called ?the best, single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written,? and ?a thrilling and affecting portrait,? by critics.

See the comments section below after noon for live comments from Meacham?s talk.

Susan Ford Bales was in town on Thursday for the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids.

The tree on the north side of the museum was one that Bales and her three brothers gave to their parents 30 years ago for their wedding anniversary.

President Ford died in December 2006, and First Lady Betty Ford passed away in July 2011.

The Ford children recently donated more than 50 personal possessions belonging to their parents for an auction to raise money for the Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

Related: President Ford, Betty Ford's personal items to be auctioned to raise money for Ford Presidential Library, Museum

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum announced a $15 million capital campaign to build a new Student Learning Center at the museum in Grand Rapids, digitize records in the library in Ann Arbor, among other improvements at the facilities that first opened in 1981.

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