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UVA’s Miller Center For Public Policy Releases “Watergate Cover-up,” on the Crucial Role of the Tapes

As multiple investigations continue into allegations of Russian interference in American elections UVA’s Miller Center has released a report on the Watergate scandal, and what eventually brought down the Nixon presidency. There were multiple investigations into the “third rate burglary,” that eventually implicated the president himself but UVA’s Miller Center’s Ken Hughes a Watergate scholar says they were going nowhere, until, “in the Oval Office, Nixon had a voice-activated tape recorded system, that meant that there were electronic records."

Ken Hughes

Could Trump 'course-correct' on voter fraud?

Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu joins a CNN panel to discuss the states' backlash against President Trump's voter fraud panel, as well as other political issues of the day.

Chris Lu

First Ladies Revealed: Jackie Kennedy

Dolley Madison. Jackie Kennedy. Nancy Reagan. Three women who helped brand their husbands' presidencies by knowing the importance of image and style. Join us as we examine their days in the White House and how they defined their position through a mix of diplomacy, glamour, and when necessary, grit. From grand entrances at inaugural balls to meeting foreign leaders, we show how these stylish women left their mark on the White House and on American history.

Barbara Perry

Confirmation, Inc.

In previous administrations, would-be Cabinet nominees didn’t have to pay out of pocket or rely on outside groups to defend them. Chris Lu, who served as executive director of President Obama’s transition team, said no similar effort existed back in 2008. Outside groups weighed in, certainly, and some of them even ran ads, but they did so on their own and without being put up to it by the nominee.

Chris Lu

Gorsuch Makes a Mark on the Court

In his abbreviated first year on the Supreme Court, Justice Neil Gorsuch has lived up to supporters’ greatest hopes and critics’ worst fears, writes the Miller Center's Sai Prakash in the Wall Street Journal.

Sai Prakash

25 Moments That Changed America

To mark the Fourth of July holiday, TIME History asked 25 experts to pick the most important events in our country's 241 years. The Miller Center's Barbara Perry chose Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Baptists in 1802, when he coined the phrase “wall of separation between Church & State.”

Barbara Perry