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… screen-gripped world, he spoke for more than himself. If President Trump really did secretly record his conversations … to leave the room except Comey. Once they were alone, the President said, “I want to talk about Mike Flynn.” The … under investigation by the FBI. According to Comey, the President said, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting …
Why it feels like we're fast-forwarding through Watergate—and why congressional committees must subpoena any and all Trump tapes.
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… the Presidential Oral History Project transcripts from President George H. W. Bush’s administration and offer … eye: the stellar foreign policy and national security team President Bush assembled, the collegiality and discipline … running time to 56 minutes—i.e., a PBS broadcast “hour.” President Bush 41’s foreign policy and national security team …
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… Does everyone still get to speak? And how does a President from any party establish a clear mandate from the … speech. I mean, if you said you were going to run for the presidency, and I said that’s great, Doug, but you can only …
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… that office indefinitely. About Xi, Trump said: “He’s now president for life, president for life. And he’s great. And … when constitutional term limits will force him out of the presidency. About one-third of all presidents who reached the end of their term made a serious …
This is how authoritarianism looks today. Our original study documents all term-limit-evasion strategies worldwide since the year 2000.
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… Running for president in 1992, Governor Bill Clinton wanted his campaign … working together toward common foreign policy goals. The president’s own scattered, overconfident, and ever-shifting …
Presidential Recordings
… exchange with Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser, President Reagan expressed his goal for international trade …
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… will discern and utilize tools that can make the U.S. president – and leaders in other democracies – more effective …
Bringing together diverse stakeholders to make democracies more resilient and effective
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… to negotiate a long term debt bill or fiscal bill with the president. That’s all stuff that happened on the Republican … well be a candidate who looked much more likely to become president of the United States. Rauch : I’m not quite … : In terms of political reform or You know, I think most presidents don’t want to spend a lot of political capital on …
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… to James Buchanan. Historians in the business of ranking presidents generally place him near the infamous bottom of … to his proximity to the near-universally accepted “best” president, Abraham Lincoln. The contrast does not serve …
History has not been kind to James Buchanan or his inaugural
Presidential Recordings
… Over the course of two meetings on 2 October 1963, President Kennedy and his national security team discussed …
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… nation’s newspapers have for weeks tracked in detail the president-elect’s personnel decisions, often drawing conclusions from tea leaves about the kind of presidency the nation is bound to experience over the next … the inauguration. The Post thought it inadvisable that the president-elect of the world’s most powerful nation would …
What we now know as the presidential transition was insufficiently distinctive in that interval to merit a special term of art. It was literally unremarkable.
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… during the first year of new administrations (one of us to President Bill Clinton, the other to President George W. … for any new administration is deceptively difficult. The president's team must be carefully chosen and then integrated …
The early days of any presidential administration are tumultuous. Still, with the failure of the Trump administration's health care repeal effort and the subsequent appointment of a new White House chief of staff, it is fair to say this administration has been more tumultuous than any in recent history.
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… at the time it came to a vote that if it was adopted the President of the United States would veto it. In my judgment, … Medicare. In January 1962, late in the first year of his presidency, Kennedy submitted his Medicare proposal to …
Looking back at Medicare legislation as a debate promise made by John Kennedy
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… Forum . We’ve all heard it a thousand times. Every president, every governor, everybody says: Public Schools are … here at the Miller Center about the first year of the next presidency. We ask lots of people if you were sitting down …
Public Events
… public optimism of so many officials, and particularly the presidents, and their private pessimism. And I think that’s … little John John, walks into the Oval Office, and the president says, “Hey, have you played—have you seen these … through with it for a host of reasons. But to hear the President’s private doubts there and then to hear Richard …
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… everything. But, they put the initial microphones in the president’s desk. So that came back to bite us because, when …
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… of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Obama on May 29, 2012. In 1997, Dr. Albright was … to the United Nations and was a member of the President’s Cabinet. From 1989 to 1992, she served as …
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… all quitting at the same time? This is what happened to President John Tyler. No one really cared too much about the … because of succession, but one could argue how the vice presidency is seen. History would repeat itself in 1865 when …
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… Party politics. She was a campaign volunteer for President Gerald Ford in 1976 and served as chair of the … private or charter school education. In November 2016, President Donald Trump nominated DeVos as the 11 th US … US Senate confirmed her on February 7, 2017, after Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote, 51-50. …
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… Act, passed during the first year of Chester A. Arthur’s presidency (he replaced the slain James A. Garfield in … for presidential elections, and a nettlesome problem for presidents, during the two periods in American history when … three major themes that are likely to affect the next president’s efforts to tackle this highly contentious issue …
Whoever moves into the White House in 2017 will face enormous pressure to take decisive action on how immigration admissions and rights are governed. But the experts who contributed essays to this First Year volume on immigration differ substantially in their prescriptions.