Miller Center

Presidential Classroom: Exhibits

Presidential Classroom exhibits give students and teachers specific historical moments with supplemental materials to delve deeper into U.S. history and government.

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Issues

Historical Events

Affirmative Action

LBJ on Affirmative Action

Campaigns

Behind the Scenes on Election Night

Civil Rights

"Just the Meanest, Dirtiest, Low-Down Stuff That I've Ever Heard": LBJ and Voter Intimidation

"The Greatest Man In The World"

African Americans and the U.S. Military

Bombs in Birmingham

Dr. Martin Luther King, LBJ, and JFK

Kennedy Meeting with White Birmingham Leaders

LBJ and John McCone on the Los Angeles Riots

LBJ and Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Republican Party

LBJ and Robert Kennedy on School Integration in Alabama

LBJ and Senator James Eastland on Mississippi Burning Murders

LBJ and Whitney Young on Civil Rights Appointments

LBJ Seeks Robert E. Lee for Civil Rights Commission

LBJ, Governor Wallace, and Buford Ellington in Selma, Alabama

March on Washington

Mississippi Burning

Nixon and Donald Rumsfeld discuss comments by Vice President Spiro Agnew

President Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. on the Watts Riots

President Johnson and Mrs. Nathan Schwerner

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King

The Murder of Civil Rights Activist Jonathan Daniels, August 20, 1965

The Ole Miss Crisis

Thurgood Marshall and LBJ: From the Johnson Tapes

Congressional Relations

"The Greatest Man In The World"

Albert Thomas gets the "Johnson Treatment"

Congratulations . . . and a Request

Congressional Coordination

Hiring People to Hurt Him

Larry O'Brien's Secret to Legislative Success

LBJ and Gerald Ford

LBJ Appoints Gerald Ford to the Warren Commission

Poverty, Religion, and Military Base Closures

The Economic Opportunity Act

The Politics of Medicare

Democratic Party

LBJ and Hubert Humphrey on the Democratic Party

Economy

"Cap the Knife"

An Optimistic Budget and Solid Poverty Programs

LBJ Explains his Fiscal Policy

LBJ on the Foreign Aid budget

President Kennedy on Harvard Economists

Presidents and Tax Policy

Foreign Policy/International Relations

JFK Consults ExComm About Concluding the Missile Crisis

LBJ Reviews US Foreign Policy

Intelligence

The CIA on the Sino-Soviet Dispute

Law

Signing the Farm Bill

Media and The Press

"The Greatest Man In The World"

Gen. Earle Wheeler on David Halberstam and the U.S. Media

Johnson and Eisenhower on Vietnam II

LBJ and Gerald Ford

LBJ on Managing Congress and the Press

Nixon and Billy Graham on Vietnam

Nixon and Donald Rumsfeld discuss comments by Vice President Spiro Agnew

Miscellaneous

Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara Dies

LBJ Orders Some New Haggar Pants

Lessons for 2012

Senator Edward Kennedy and the JFK, LBJ, and Nixon White House Tapes

Nonproliferation

JFK and Nuclear Strategy

JFK Consults ExComm About Concluding the Missile Crisis

JFK on Nuclear Launch Procedures during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Nixon and the Amchitka Nuclear Test, November 1971

Nuclear Weapons

JFK and Nuclear Strategy

JFK on Nuclear Launch Procedures during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Nixon and the Amchitka Nuclear Test, November 1971

Personal Life and Personality

A Rough Guide to Richard Nixon's Conspiracy Theories

JFK Orders "One of Those Blue Pills"

JFK's Memoir Dictation on the Assassination of Diem

LBJ and Jacqueline Kennedy

LBJ and Lady Bird on Texas life

LBJ and the Response to Hurricane Betsy

LBJ on Ted Sorensen

LBJ Orders Some New Haggar Pants

LBJ's Work Day and Agenda

Nixon: "The Jews are Born Spies"

President Kennedy on Harvard Economists

Thomas Eagleton

Tricia Nixon's Wedding

Politics

Albert Thomas gets the "Johnson Treatment"

Beating McGovern

LBJ and Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Republican Party

LBJ Appoints Gerald Ford to the Warren Commission

LBJ on Ted Sorensen

Nixon and Bob Haldeman on Donald Rumsfeld

Nixon and Chuck Colson on John Kerry

Nixon and Haldeman on John Kerry

Nixon, Kissinger, and Haldeman on John Kerry

President Nixon and Bob Haldeman on Fred Malek

Presidents and the Presidency

Executive Privilege

JFK Orders "One of Those Blue Pills"

LBJ and Eisenhower on Bombing North Vietnam

LBJ and Hubert Humphrey on the Democratic Party

LBJ and Jacqueline Kennedy

LBJ and Lady Bird on Texas life

LBJ and Mrs. Nellie Connally

LBJ Appoints Gerald Ford to the Warren Commission

LBJ on Choosing a Vice President

LBJ Orders Some New Haggar Pants

LBJ's Work Day and Agenda

LBJ, Lady Bird, and Mrs. Rose Kennedy

Nixon, Kissinger, and Haldeman on John Kerry

Oliver Hallet and Pierre Salinger

Pierre Salinger and Oliver Hallet

Richard Nixon Reflects on Youth Today

The Future Presidents Club

Republican party

LBJ and Hubert Humphrey on the Democratic Party

LBJ and Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Republican Party

Supreme Court

LBJ's Nomination of Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court, July 1965

Nixon's Final Advice to Rehnquist

Thurgood Marshall and LBJ: From the Johnson Tapes

Brazil

LBJ on Latin American Dictators

Meeting on Brazilian Elections

China

A Global Enemies List

JFK and Taylor on the Sino-Soviet Split

The CIA on the Sino-Soviet Dispute

The Pandas Are Coming!

Cuba

JFK and Taylor on the Sino-Soviet Split

Foreign Aid

LBJ on the Foreign Aid budget

President Kennedy on the Foreign Service

Latin America

Gatecrashing the White House (Telephone)

Panama

LBJ and Dick Russell discuss Panama

LBJ and Dick Russell Discuss Panama

Testing Sargent Shriver: Vietnam and Assassinations

South Korea

Lyndon Johnson and Wilbur Mills on South Korea and Australia

Soviet Union

Charles Bohlen on the Sino-Soviet Dispute

JFK and Taylor on the Sino-Soviet Split

Healthcare

All the Incentives are Toward Less Medical Care

The Politics of Medicare

Immigration

"These People Are Taking Our Jobs"

"They Just Can't Get the Americans to Do It"

Lyndon Johnson and Arthur Goldberg on Immigration

Lyndon Johnson and Nicholas Katzenbach on the Immigration Bill

Labor

President Kennedy's Job Offer to Willard Wirtz

Transportation

A Bipartisan Transportation Bill

Hiring People to Hurt Him

Birmingham 1963

Bombs in Birmingham

Dr. Martin Luther King, LBJ, and JFK

Civil Rights Act 1964

Dr. Martin Luther King, LBJ, and JFK

LBJ, Charles Halleck, and the Passage of the Civil Rights Bill

Cold War

Lyndon Johnson and Wilbur Mills on South Korea and Australia

Community Action Program

LBJ and Porter Hardy on the Community Action Program

LBJ and Senator Richard Russell on the Community Action Program

LBJ on Sargent Shriver, Politics, and the War on Poverty

Mayor Daley on the Community Action Program

The Economic Opportunity Act

Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

"You're in a Pretty Bad Fix"

JFK and Harold Macmillan on the Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK Consults ExComm About Concluding the Missile Crisis

JFK Consults ExComm About the Growing Missile Crisis

John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower

Missiles in Turkey

Diem Coup 1963

JFK's Memoir Dictation on the Assassination of Diem

LBJ and Eugene McCarthy on the Assassination of Dgo Dinh Diem

Testing Sargent Shriver: Vietnam and Assassinations

Escalation in Vietnam

"There Ain't No Daylight in Vietnam"

Gen. Earle Wheeler on David Halberstam and the U.S. Media

Ground Troops and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution

JFK on Nuclear Launch Procedures during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Johnson and Eisenhower on Vietnam

LBJ and Eugene McCarthy on the Assassination of Dgo Dinh Diem

LBJ and McGeorge Bundy discuss Vietnam

LBJ and Richard Russell on Vietnam

More War or More Appeasement

Vietnam: Getting In or Getting Out?

Vietnam: More War or More Appeasement

Freedom Summer 1964

LBJ and Senator James Eastland on Mississippi Burning Murders

President Johnson and Mrs. Nathan Schwerner

Great Depression

"Philosophy of Rugged Individualism"

JFK Assassination

JFK Assassination Tapes

LBJ and Mrs. Nellie Connally

LBJ Appoints Gerald Ford to the Warren Commission

LBJ, Lady Bird, and Mrs. Rose Kennedy

Oliver Hallet and Pierre Salinger

Pierre Salinger and Oliver Hallet

Kennedy Withdrawal 1963

October 2, 1963: 1,000 Troop Withdrawal from South Vietnam

October 5, 1963: 1,000 Troop Withdrawal from South Vietnam

The Context for Withdrawal

The Great “What If”: JFK and the Withdrawal of Troops from Vietnam

The Kennedy Withdrawal

The Kennedy Withdrawal

The Kennedy Withdrawal (Combined)

The Wheeler Report

School Integration

Kennedy Meeting with White Birmingham Leaders

LBJ and Robert Kennedy on School Integration in Alabama

The Ole Miss Crisis

Sino-Soviet Split

Charles Bohlen on the Sino-Soviet Dispute

JFK and Taylor on the Sino-Soviet Split

The CIA on the Sino-Soviet Dispute

Space Race

Fly Me To the Moon

JFK and the Space Race

Tonkin 1964

"As Far As We Can Tell"

"These Covert Operations"

Gulf of Tonkin, 1964: Perspectives from the Lyndon Johnson and National Military Command Center Tape

Larry O'Brien's Secret to Legislative Success

Preparing a Response

Vietnam End Game

Bob Haldeman's Audio Diary Entry on Nixon's Plans for Withdrawal from Vietnam

Cut Off His [Thieu's] Head

Vietnam: Getting In or Getting Out?

Vietnam War

"As Far As We Can Tell"

"I Think That's Hopeless"

"There Ain't No Daylight in Vietnam"

"These Covert Operations"

"This is Treason"

An Exceptional Alliance: Johnson, Eisenhower, and the Vietnam War

Assessing the War

Bob Haldeman's Audio Diary Entry on Nixon's Plans for Withdrawal from Vietnam

Cut Off His [Thieu's] Head

Dispatching the Wheeler Mission

Explaining Vietnam

First Domino: Nixon and the Pentagon Papers

Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara Dies

Gen. Earle Wheeler on David Halberstam and the U.S. Media

Ground Troops and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Gulf of Tonkin, 1964: Perspectives from the Lyndon Johnson and National Military Command Center Tape

JFK's Memoir Dictation on the Assassination of Diem

Johnson and Eisenhower on Vietnam

Johnson and Eisenhower on Vietnam II

LBJ and Eisenhower on Bombing North Vietnam

LBJ and Eugene McCarthy on the Assassination of Dgo Dinh Diem

LBJ and Gerald Ford

LBJ and Gerald Ford on Bombing in Vietnam

LBJ and McGeorge Bundy discuss Vietnam

LBJ and McNamara on Vietnam

LBJ and Richard Russell on Vietnam

LBJ and Sen. Richard Russell on Vietnam

LBJ and The Logic of Escalation

More War or More Appeasement

Nixon and Billy Graham on Vietnam

Nixon and Chuck Colson on John Kerry

Nixon and Haldeman on John Kerry

Nixon and Kissinger on South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu

Nixon, Kissinger, and Haldeman on John Kerry

Nixon, Kissinger, and the "Decent Interval"

October 2, 1963: 1,000 Troop Withdrawal from South Vietnam

October 5, 1963: 1,000 Troop Withdrawal from South Vietnam

Preparing a Response

President Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford on Antiwar Demonstrations

Reporting Vietnam

Robert Kennedy on a Possible Coup in South Vietnam

Status Report on Vietnam

Testing Sargent Shriver: Vietnam and Assassinations

The Best in the Army

The Context for Withdrawal

The Great “What If”: JFK and the Withdrawal of Troops from Vietnam

The Kennedy Withdrawal

The Kennedy Withdrawal

The Kennedy Withdrawal (Combined)

The Wheeler Report

Vietnam and the Ghost of Ben Milam

Vietnam: Getting In or Getting Out?

Vietnam: More War or More Appeasement

War on Poverty

"I Thought We Were Going to Have CCC Camps"

An Optimistic Budget and Solid Poverty Programs

Larry O'Brien's Secret to Legislative Success

LBJ and Senator Richard Russell on the Community Action Program

LBJ on Sargent Shriver, Politics, and the War on Poverty

LBJ Sells the War on Poverty

LBJ's Work Day and Agenda

Mayor Daley and the War on Poverty

Mayor Daley on the Community Action Program

Poverty, Religion, and Military Base Closures

President Johnson Compares the War on Poverty to the Abolition of Slavery

Sen. Ribicoff Outlines Problems in the War on Poverty

Swimming With Billy Graham

Testing Sargent Shriver: Vietnam and Assassinations

The Economic Opportunity Act

The War on Poverty and Racial Tension in the Urban North

Watergate

Colson and Nixon on Howard Hunt

This Will be Forgotten

Watergate: "Above the Law"

Watergate: They Have to be Paid

Why Didn't Nixon Burn the Tapes?

World War II

"Some Fool Thing"

A Japanese Ultimatum

African Americans and the U.S. Military

The Contingencies of War

The Marshall Plan

The Tripartite Pact