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Former President Bill Clinton to give keynote address at Miller Center’s inaugural Presidential Ideas Festival in May

William Antholis, the director and CEO of the Miller Center, said in an email statement to The Cavalier Daily that the University is able to bring former President Clinton to Grounds due to the connection between him and the center in the past. Antholis himself worked as director of international economic affairs for the National Security Council in the Clinton administration and has stayed in touch with Clinton and his team through the years.
William Antholis
Washington Post

Behind the matronly image, an influential first lady

In my brief encounter with her, I was exposed to the full Barbara Bush treatment. This well-known side of the first lady’s vinegary personality appears frequently in Susan Page’s new biography, “The Matriarch.” But Page, the Washington bureau chief of USA Today, has written a more complete and highly readable portrait of the wife of the 41st president and mother of the 43rd.
Barbara Perry
Newsday

Why security clearances matter

Amid the daily barrage of news coming from the White House, it’s often hard to tell what really matters and what doesn’t. But the latest revelation about the security clearance process should concern all Americans.
Chris Lu
Hoover Institution

The US Role In The Middle East In An Era Of Renewed Great Power Competition

What role should the United States play in the Middle East as its attention shifts to the objectives outlined in the National Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy of competing with near peers like Russia and China? Today pundits and observers are posing this question against a backdrop of more than a decade and a half of costly, inconclusive and seemingly “endless” wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the more recent deployment of roughly two thousand Special Forces troops to Syria as part of the counter ISIS campaign.
Eric Edelman