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Can the government’s economic books be cooked?

This is documented in one of the secret White House tapes that has been researched and transcribed by Ken Hughes at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. (Miller is author of the book “Chasing Shadows,” as well as an article documenting this episode.) It includes this conversation on July 24, 1971, between Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, in which Nixon said: “There’s a Jewish cabal, you know, running through this working with people like [then-Federal Reserve Chair Arthur] Burns and the rest, and they all, they all only talk to Jews. Now how in the hell do you ever expect us to get anything from that staff, the raw data, let alone the poor guy’s gonna say (inaudible), but it’s gonna be loaded against us.”

Ken Hughes

Kamala Harris' husband earns a Twitter hashtag

"When I look at them, I see America," Miller Center Director of Presidential Studies Barbara Perry says on CNN during an interview about Kamala Harris' husband, Douglas Emhoff.

Barbara Perry

Chris Lu on the first Democratic debate

Senior Fellow Chris Lu is interviewed on MSNBC about the first Democratic presidential candidates debate.

Chris Lu

Iowa Voters Prefer Issues Over Anti-Trump Messaging

Chris Lu, Former Deputy Secretary of Labor and Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center, discusses the winners and losers of the first Democratic debate. Hosted by Lisa Abramowicz and Paul Sweeney.

Chris Lu

Obama didn't want a 'what now' moment if he won. Trump didn't plan and now we have chaos.

That’s why planning for an Obama presidential transition began six months before Election Day 2008 and continued for 77 days afterwards until he took the oath of office on Inauguration Day. New reporting by Axios shows how another candidate with long odds barely planned at all. And then he won.

Chris Lu

‘A fight for truth’: To criticize Trump in debates, Democrats must be scrupulously honest

“One way to appeal to voters who are wavering about the way Trump operates is to play the Jimmy Carter card and make this like Watergate,” said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. “It’s ‘if you’re really sick of the Richard Nixon’s lies, then vote for me, Jimmy Carter, and I will never lie to you.’ ”

Barbara Perry