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… point when I asked him how he was preparing to possibly be president. Are you reading the great presidential … well how are you preparing, how will you make decisions as president. And he said “well I’m not going to be reading any …
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… perspectives from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Juilliard School President Damian Woetzel, and UVA Assistant Professor and … such as the Electoral College and the American presidency while asking how we might restore truthfulness in …
“I’m as worried as anybody about [our] democracy,” said Angela Glover Blackwell, founder in residence at PolicyLink. “But at the same time, I am super excited about the possibilities. . . . We really are in a time where we have a shot at a true, multiracial democracy.”
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… of 4, when she attended a 1960 campaign rally for future president John F. Kennedy with her mother and two brothers. … she is among the nation’s foremost experts on the American presidency in general and the Kennedy family in particular. … arrived at the White House, much to the delight of the president’s two children, Caroline and John Jr. The puppies, …
Miller Center scholar—and expert on all things Kennedy—Barbara Perry reveals little-known family secrets
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… of the bulk of the other presidential recordings from Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, … File: WAV: 036.3/01143 MC (2001): 3:188 McNamara: “Mr. President, first [ unclear ] yesterday about our own [ unclear ] .” Stern: 432 McNamara: “Mr. President, first a question you raised yesterday about our …
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… 1972 reelection campaign, and to spring former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa from prison in return for the union’s … to the Watergate break-in. No one has ever proved that President Nixon ordered burglars to photograph documents and …
Nixon's abuses of presidential power may pale beside Trump's
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… Perhaps because Clinton’s presidency was hobbled by six years of divided government, …
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Abraham Lincoln powerfully argued for the preservation of the Union in his first inaugural address
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… But the larger issue remains. Just as we saw with President Lyndon B. Johnson's fight for Medicare in 1965, … post-Affordable Care Act reform. In the decades since President Harry Truman’s fight for universal coverage, the …
Lyndon Johnson made a political choice on health care that Democratic presidential candidates shouldn't repeat
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… few years, the events will largely focus on the American presidency through our “Presidency at a Crossroads” project—which examines major …
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… to 2004. Moving to the private sector, Esper was a vice president at Aerospace Industries Association from 2006 to … the Secretary of the Army. He held that position until President Donald Trump nominated him to become the 27th …
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… from making the chief justice of the Supreme Court the president of the court of impeachments, as is proposed to be …
A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.
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… to remember that transitions can be a vulnerable time. President Donald Trump could create or inherit situations … happened in Somalia in 1992–1993. On December 4, 1992, President George H. W. Bush, who was defeated for re-election … on Clinton, that there was said to be a frustration on the President’s part about “mission creep,” that the mission had …
The George H. W. Bush oral history project examines Somalia and the transition from Bush to Clinton