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At the Miller Center, we believe that opposing positions can both have merit; that we can investigate questions of fact and discuss questions of opinion; that we can be open to changing our minds; and that our political system benefits from compromise. That’s why every year we bring together Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. We convene dozens of events fostering civil and intellectual dialogue among scholars, politicians, journalists, and citizens.

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May 27, 1986 08:00 PM

Jefferson and Madison

  • Dumas Malone and Hugh Sidey

  • Hugh Sidey

May 16, 1986 08:00 PM

The Global Agenda

  • Ted Turner

May 15, 1986 08:00 PM

The Nixon Presidency

  • Stephen Hess

May 13, 1986 08:00 PM

President Ford and the Media

May 07, 1986 08:00 PM

Arms Control and the Future and The Strategic Defense Initiative: Pro and Con

  • Kosta Tsipis and Dr. Gerold Yonas

May 06, 1986 08:00 PM

The Ford Presidency and Public Diplomacy

  • Leo Cherne

April 30, 1986 08:00 PM

The President and Science Advising and The Ford Presidency

  • Guy Stever

April 24, 1986 07:00 PM

President Ford and the Media

  • Jerry terHorst

  • Carl Brauer

April 23, 1986 07:00 PM

Television and American Politics: Confrontation vs. the Search for Truth

  • Paul Duke

  • Charles McDowell

April 13, 1986 07:00 PM

President Ford and the Senate

  • Sen. Charles Goodell

April 09, 1986 07:00 PM

Nixon and the Congress Contrasted with the Kennedy-Johnson Experience

  • Kenneth BeLieu

April 06, 1986 07:00 PM

U.S.-German Dialogue in the Post-War Era

  • Fritz G. Friedman

March 27, 1986 07:00 PM

War and Presidential Power: The War Powers Act

  • Sen. Thomas Eagleton

March 24, 1986 07:00 PM

Medieval Anti-Semitism and the Rhetoric of Folly: The Fool as Killer of Christ

  • V.A. Kolve

March 20, 1986 07:00 PM

The Ford White House

  • Richard Cheney

March 16, 1986 07:00 PM

Rhetoric in the Roman Republic

  • Erich Gruen

March 13, 1986 07:00 PM

The President and Science Advising

  • William Carey

March 09, 1986 07:00 PM

The Ford Presidency

  • Robert Griffin

March 02, 1986 07:00 PM

The Nixon-Ford Presidency

  • Lou Cannon

February 23, 1986 07:00 PM

Reagan at the Crossroads

  • Lou Cannon

February 19, 1986 07:00 PM

Rhetoric in Plato's Phaedrus

  • Paul Cantor

February 11, 1986 07:00 PM

India and America: The Long View from Washington and New Delhi

  • K.S. Bajpai

February 03, 1986 07:00 PM

President Ford and the Budget

  • Paul O'Neill

December 16, 1985 07:00 PM

The Nixon and Ford Presidencies

  • Helmut Sonnenfeldt

December 09, 1985 07:00 PM

The Johnson Administration

  • Henry H Fowler

December 05, 1985 07:00 PM

National Budget and the Deficit, Presidential Transitions and Presidential Disability

  • Lloyd Cutler

November 24, 1985 07:00 PM

The Nixon White House

  • Leonard Garment

November 21, 1985 07:00 PM

The Johnson Presidency

  • Hon. Leonard Marks

November 20, 1985 07:00 PM

The Presidency and Tax Reform

  • Hon. Mortimer M. Caplin

November 12, 1985 07:00 PM

Genres of Political Rhetoric

  • Ralph Cohen

November 10, 1985 07:00 PM

The Nixon Presidency and The Ford Presidency

  • Kenneth Rush

November 07, 1985 07:00 PM

The Rhetoric or Reticence

  • Claude Rawson

  • Admiral Stansfield Turner