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… Day O’Connor’s name. He told me how he had met her, if the President would ever be interested in a woman. I had walked … women jurists he had run into, since it was clear that the President wanted to do that, if he was comfortable with the … press office. So I was assigned the task of writing the President’s announcement, which I did. And as I say, I’m very …
The trailblazing first female Supreme Court justice dies at 93.
Presidential Recordings
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… Knox Polk, but they should. He was a rather consequential president and an astute political leader who fought the … be nominated by a major political party and elected to the presidency. His candidacy was made possible after Martin van …
Not many Americans know James P. Polk but they should
Public Events
… began in Philadelphia 232 years ago, the office of the presidency was just one of many topics. But it was unlike any … the evolution of a hereditary office. “Of our first six presidents—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and … an insight by biographer Richard Brookhiser. “The one president who did have a son, he became president… We sort of …
Public Events
… Nash Leadership sometimes means saying, “No” to the President of the United States. On Sept. 11, 2001, White … group of other people to follow. McDonough observed that presidents must not only lead the people who elected them but …
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… in many cases, virtual learning. In December 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he would nominate …
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… He was reelected in 2017 but resigned in March 2021 after President Joe Biden appointed him Secretary of Labor. The US …
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… on Jan. 20, 1977, with her freshly inaugurated husband, President Jimmy Carter, I knew they were going to be a … Watergate nightmare that seemed to expand the “imperial presidency,” as historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. labeled it, …
Rosalynn Carter is in the pantheon of American first ladies, writes Barbara Perry.
Presidential Recordings
… President Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. When he became president of the United States in 1977, he discovered that …
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… democracy. The world is seeing the bravery of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian people, who … and freedom. When offered a flight out of the country, President Zelensky and his family chose to stay. As Russian …
Too many of our policymakers aren't willing to defend our system.
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… President Trump’s first month was dominated by his executive … After that, things generally start to go downhill. For all presidents, looming mid-terms mean that Congressional action … trusted. Jimmy Carter alienated his party early on in his presidency, and he never fully recovered. Fifth, crises can …
As they shift from executive orders to legislation, the Trump administration will now find it is even harder to work with Congress to pass a law.
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… dubbed with the acronym “SOC,” came from seeing her preside over a moot court competition at the University of Virginia Law School in the 1980s, shortly after President Ronald Reagan named her to the nation’s highest … law, judicial studies, civil rights and liberties, and the presidency. I was especially proud of the honor she bestowed …
Although down-to-earth from her cowgirl childhood, O’Connor could reveal an imperious persona on the bench.
Presidential Speeches
… work of the court before the expiration of the year the President might by proclamation extend the time of its …
Public Events
… the Clinton foundation, used the historic companionship of Presidents Bush and Clinton as a framework for modern … for this discussion by reading aloud the letter former President Bush gave incoming President Bill Clinton. “I wish …
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… President Barack Obama heads to Havana this weekend, the most … towards full normalization with Cuba. At stake in the President’s visit is a desire to show progress on the …
The history and the future of US-Cuban relations
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… list of international problems will compete for the next president’s attention upon taking office, including: the …
The next commander in chief will have to contend with a more intangible though quite serious problem: growing uncertainty about the nature of U.S. global leadership going forward.
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… As the first American president to wrest power from an opposing party, Thomas … emulate. Americans celebrate Jefferson’s election to the presidency in 1801 for setting the great precedent of the … abandonment of principle.” He later explained that a president’s primary duty was “to unite in himself the …
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… surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins in 1987. President George W. Bush awarded Dr. Carson the Presidential … the Republican Party after he began to publicly criticize President Barack Obama and the Affordable Care Act. Carson … suspended his campaign in March 2016. Shortly after President Trump’s victory in 2016, he nominated Carson to …
Public Events
… location to our day long National Summit on Race and the Presidency held recently at the Jimmy Carter Library in … to the most vexing problems that are already facing President Trump in his first year in office. One of the best …
Presidential Recordings
… of NATO missiles in Turkey for Soviet missiles in Cuba, President Kennedy conferred with senior advisers on how to …