The Presidency / The First Year

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Joe Biden at one year

Presidential experts evaluate the 46th president's first year in office

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Donald Trump at one year

White House veterans and Miller Center scholars evaluate the 45th president's first 365 days

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First Year Project Introduction

Watch this overview of the First Year Project

Ladders

Jobs and Economy

Opportune moment

Equal opportunity is America’s promise. From the very beginning of our national existence, we have told ourselves and the world that here, unlike so many other countries, where you begin does not determine where you end up.
William Galston
Brookings Institution
Schematics

Science and Technology

The long game

What can a president do to build a next-generation economy? How can economic growth widen opportunity for all Americans, not just a privileged few? Every modern American president has wrestled with some version of these two questions during his first year in office.
Margaret O'Mara
University of Washington

The Presidency

Tales of transitions past

Five past-presidential transition leaders on what to do before inauguration
Thomas van der Voort
Miller Center

The Presidency

Winning over Capitol Hill

An insider’s account of congressional relations in the first year
Jeff Chidester and Tony Lucadamo
Miller Center