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Citing no evidence, Trump accuses Obama of tapping his phones during the election

“I see echoes with the past,” Ken Hughes, a researcher at the University of Virginia Miller Center, a think tank that studies the presidency, said in an interview. “It is clear that Trump is very defensive and he is very worried,” said Hughes, who wrote a book on the Republican interference in the Vietnam peace talks.
Ken Hughes
KPCC

Prop or not? Why presidents single people out

Presidents often point out persons of note in front of Congress. Sometimes their motives are clear, other times opaque. So why do it? For answers, Take Two turned to Barbara Perry, director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
Barbara Perry
CSPAN radio

The LBJ Tapes: Vietnam Peace Proposals

President Lyndon Johnson discussed the war in Vietnam, including peace proposals from foreign leaders and from Senator Robert Kennedy. Marc Selverstone, chair of the Presidential Recordings Project at the Miller Center, talked to us about significant events in March 1967, the calls in this program and President Johnson’s place in the recent C-SPAN Presidents Survey.
Marc Selverstone
Bloomberg Pursuits

Is Donald Trump Finally Dressing Like a President?

“For the outsize personality, reality-show persona of Donald Trump, he toned all that down,” said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. The importance of his look, gestures, and delivery is “not to be minimized,” she said, because throughout the campaign and the transition, the public wondered when—and if—he would ever become more presidential.
Barbara Perry
The Age

Trump, for once, has done the media a favour

It was the nicest tweet Donald Trump had ever sent about the media. On Saturday, he announced he would not be appearing at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner (an annual roast with journalists and the sitting president), and even wished the attendees well, with nary a "FAKE NEWS!" or "failing New York Times" to be found.
Nicole Hemmer