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… included Susan Rice, former national security advisor to President Barack Obama; Peter Wehner, White House Office of Strategic Initiatives director for President George W. Bush; and Risa Goluboff, constitutional …
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… and agree with the sentiment famously expressed by President Ronald Reagan that government in fact “is the … See millercenter.org/president for resources on U.S. presidents 13:00 Blackmon : As we then move closer in time to …
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… for Democratic presidential candidates to challenge the president’s record. In 2019, for instance, the gap between … in state and local minimum wages that Republicans and the president opposed. Trump’s signature legislative …
He claims the economy is “the best it has ever been.” A closer look at the data tells a different story.
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… of our defensive posture…” In March of his first year, President Reagan introduced his budget for fiscal year 1982. … what role did increasing defense spending play in the president’s grand strategy? Historian Hal Brands discussed …
Looking back at defense spending as a debate promise made by Ronald Reagan
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… To the new president: Almost no one has noticed during this year’s ugly … Here is why this first year, unlike those of many other presidents, holds promise for immigration breakthroughs. You …
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… of Representatives until he joined the administration of President Donald J. Trump. On February 10, 2017, Price became … government funds for personal travel. Under pressure from President Trump, Price resigned as secretary on September 29, …
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… As secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, who died on March … What Secretary Albright and Stephen Hadley would tell President Trump Secretary Albright and Stephen Hadley on … point out what could be done. Also, at that stage, French President [Jacques] Chirac was very helpful, and we actually …
Albright was a friend of UVA's Miller Center, having sat with us for hours for oral history interviews for both the Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton Oral History Projects.
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… a Freedom of Information Act request to see whether any of President Ronald Reagan’s taped conversations could aid his … eight hours of recordings from the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency. “FDR recorded press conferences so that he could …
Miller Center scholars begin analyzing new batches of presidential tapes.
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… Bill Clinton administration in 1993 as assistant to the president for economic policy and as director of the newly … NEC, he coordinated economic policy recommendations to the president and monitored the implementation of the president’s economic policy goals. In January 1995, Secretary …
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… Shortly after President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term, … David Cameron and Germany’s Angela Merkel, encouraged the President to pursue a free-trade pact with Europe during his … an agreement received a boost on February 12, 2013, when President Obama, in his annual State of the Union Address, …
The Miller Center hosted the 2013 Mortimer Caplin Conference on December 2 in Washington, DC.The conference was organized to provide key stakeholder groups—government officials, business and labor leaders, trade experts, and scholars—from the United States and European Union a forum for constructive dialogue on a transatlantic free trade agreement.
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… In the 2024 presidential election, Rubio endorsed former President Trump, choosing to support him over Florida’s …
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… months later, Americans elected Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. Did Marine Le Pen's loss to … Hitchcock, an expert on Europe, US foreign relations, and President Eisenhower, unpacks the result from the French, …
Watch: Miller Center Historian Will Hitchcock looks at Emmanuel Macron's victory over Marine Le Pen
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… As a scholar of the Kennedy presidency, Miller Center Professor Barbara Perry has been … program will feature lectures on John F. Kennedy’s life, presidency, and legacy, along with discussions of the Kennedy …
The Miller Center invites you join us for a special seminar, “JFK at 100,” to be taught by Barbara Perry in Boston May 23
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… history. Perry ran for the Republican nomination for US president in 2012 and 2016. In December 2016, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Perry to be Secretary …
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… Treasury for which you haven’t budgeted your situation. President Johnson: Yeah, but I’ll take care of that. I’ll do … and what I said I’d spend. Mills: Well, that’s good. President Johnson: Now, I think that I would at least get …
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… change—and the outright climate skepticism expressed by President Donald Trump—two former Republican secretaries of … mitigate climate damage. James Baker, George Shultz, and President Ronald Reagan “Just as in the 1980s, there is … economist for the Council of Economic Advisers under President George H.W. Bush, noted that “there is a …
The ideas put forth by Shultz and Baker closely track a carbon tax proposal suggested by William Gale of the Brookings Institution in an essay for the Miller Center’s First Year Project published in February 2016.
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… American Localism. Several times over the past century, presidents have entered office focused on remaking our … essential component of achieving their governing vision. President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society marked a huge …
While our broken politics have been difficult to watch, there has been a silver lining to the dysfunction: It has helped spark a burst of positive, pragmatic energy in the nation’s cities and metropolitan areas. Cities and metros have been forging ambitious, bottom-up solutions in nearly every area of national importance.
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… Read the full article at The Bulwark President Biden has announced the withdrawal of all U.S. … to reverse it. In fact, that is the entire point—the president believes a conditions-based approach is “a recipe …
There’s much more that can be said about the decision and the process (or lack thereof) behind it. But given how unlikely the decision is to be reversed, it is worth considering what will happen to Afghanistan after the last American troops leave.
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… a multicultural democracy? On November 3, we elected a new president, and we also got a snapshot of the American body … to many Americans, more than 73 million voters support a president who champions an immigration policy that ruthlessly … House itself became a hotspot, the band played on as the president’s supporters cheered at packed, Hatch-Act violating …
The raw emotion of American politics and culture were in full view, requiring us to ask: Do we have enough in common to build a multicultural democracy?
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