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… Martin Anderson, assistant to the president for policy development, reflected on the two sides of President Ronald Reagan's persona. While Reagan seemed to be …
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… excerpts from five (the interview with the sixth, former President Barack Obama, has not yet been released to the … pleasure always to associate with them. Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 …
Excerpts from Miller Center oral history interviews with previous winners.
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… the U.N. resolutions, and the failing economic sanctions, President George W. Bush had been considering how to deal … more than 4,200 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq during Bush’s presidency. Interrogation and Surveillance After the … measures were justified, They also pointed to other U.S. Presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt who …
Iraq refused to comply with U.N. disarmament requirements and had the potential to produce weapons of mass destruction. So the Bush 43 administration considered Saddam Hussein’s regime a dangerous threat.
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… support of the University of Virginia Office of the President, the George and Judy Marcus Democracy Praxis Fund, …
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… As President Biden completed his first year, the Miller Center … . The collective assessment? Lesson one: Context matters. Presidents must play the hands they are dealt. Our greatest …
We take presidential "first years" seriously at the Miller Center.
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… to American Forum . I'm Doug Blackmon. In the weeks since President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, we've had guests … be most crucial in this coming first year of the Trump presidency, their advice for President Trump and his advisors …
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… for the Whitewater Independent Counsel which investigated President Bill Clinton. In 2000, he was one of the team of … election in Florida. When George W. Bush became president, Azar served as the general counsel for the …
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… From February 16, 1971, through July 12, 1973, President Richard Nixon secretly recorded over 3,700 hours of … recording them for several reasons. [6] First, along with Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, Nixon believed … discussions. Third, Nixon wanted an accurate record of his presidency for use in preparing his memoirs. Nixon was always …
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… find themselves pleading the case of who should win the Presidency. Here are seven tactics, in his own words, that he …
In the plethora of challenges to state election procedures making their way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the specter of Bush v. Gore haunts the judicial landscape.
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… George Washington’s ascent to the presidency was really a reverse of what we have since come to … execution draws nigh." Washington was “condemned” to the presidency when electors from the ten participating states … that Washington would make to the office of the presidency. But this would be no monarch; the new leader wore …
As with so much, George Washington's Inaugural Address set the stage for all that followed
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… : Welcome back to American Forum . I’m Doug Blackmon. President Dwight D. Eisenhower occupied the White House in … Eisenhower could have become one of the great civil rights presidents of, of the last half century if he had wanted to. …
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… What lessons might the policies and rhetoric of past presidents and administrations hold for our understanding of …
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… wars in Europe and Asia. This conversation between President Roosevelt and civil rights leaders highlighted the …
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… The first year of a new presidency is a time of peak hope and optimism. Fresh off an … mandate and basking in the brief honeymoon period, many presidents have utilized this window to advance their agenda and pass signature legislation. For the 45th president, however, prospects for such a window are dim. On …
An insider’s account of congressional relations in the first year