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The Power of the Executive: From Presidents 1 to 45

Ahead of the Presidents Day holiday, Amy Walter talks to Dr. Barbara Perry about the role of of the executive and how it has changed over time. Dr. Perry is a professor of presidential studies at the University of Virginia. She says to understand how the president’s role has changed and developed over the course of history we have to go to the beginning, like the real beginning.
Barbara Perry
WNYC

National Emergency or Executive Overreach?

On Friday, to avert another government shutdown, President Trump signed a bipartisan spending package that he argues did not include enough funding for a border wall. To secure that funding, he declared a national emergency. In advance of Trump’s official announcement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke out against the idea of an emergency declaration. Is declaring a national emergency in this situation allowed? Unprecedented? To get a better understanding of this use of executive power Amy Walter spoke to Dr. Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
Barbara Perry
CBS19

Political Tuesday: Handling Scandal in Office

Virginia's governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general all remain in office despite facing separate scandals. In this week's Political Tuesday, Barbara Perry from the University of Virginia's Miller Center discussed how politicians have handled scandals differently while they were in office. She especially focused on the differences between Bill Clinton's response to the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Richard Nixon's response to Watergate.
Barbara Perry
History.com

How Nixon’s WWII Poker Game Helped Bankroll His First Run for Congress

“In everything he did, Nixon tried to master the fundamentals,” Ken Hughes, a historian with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, and author of the 2015 book Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection, says in an email. “When he wanted to learn poker in the Navy, he studied the game before risking any of his money, spending hours and days with the best players he could find, listening to their lectures, learning their moves, playing practice games with no stakes.
Ken Hughes
NPR

If Trump Declares An Emergency To Build The Wall, Congress Can Block Him

That high bar may be one reason Congress hasn't been more active in pushing back on emergencies in the past. Another reason is presidents have typically used emergencies in line with congressional intent, said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. But what Trump is contemplating would be different, he says.
Russell Riley
Virginia Policy Review

Ep. 4 - Chris Lu, Senior Fellow at UVA's Miller Center

VPR's Editor-in-Chief Jack DiMatteo and Associate Editor Alexandre Fall sit down with Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44), Senior Fellow at UVA's Miller Center. Previously, Lu worked in the office of then-Senator Barack Obama, before eventually leading the Obama-Biden transition team. He then served in the Obama Administration as White House Cabinet Secretary before ultimately becoming Deputy Secretary of Labor in 2014. The conversation touches on Lu's education, government service, the 2020 elections, and the political and policy landscape, among other things.
Chris Lu