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… article at UVA Today As the author of more than 100 of President George H. W. Bush’s speeches, Mary Kate Cary can … Americans: The Most Important Speeches of American’s Presidents, from George Washington to Barack Obama , by …
Martin Luther King Jr. is widely regarded as one of the best public speakers of all time. Mary Kate Cary, a senior fellow at the UVA Miller Center of Public Affairs, said the motivational nature of King’s speeches, akin to the famous Greek orator Demosthenes, is what sets him apart.
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… advocated for comprehensive immigration reform. And yet President Trump pursued a very different strategy, ignoring … feel a significant Hispanic backlash in the midterms given President Trump's controversial border policies. The …
Five factors that will impact the important Hispanic demographic on November 6.
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… weapons and some of the new exotic nuclear weapons that President Putin has announced in recent years. As Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has noted, “President Biden agreed to Russian requests for a full …
Now that the keystone of the arms control enterprise remains in place it is worth examining why so many arms control experts and advocates have been warning about “the end,” “the death” or the “deep crisis” of arms control. As one leading Russian scholar of arms control has argued, “legacy Cold War-era arms control is collapsing and an uncontrolled nuclear arms race is threatening to return.”
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… on fiscal discipline. Grover Norquist is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer … Council of Economic Advisors and chief economist for the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board from 2010 to …
Since 2010, seven U.S. cities and counties have filed for bankruptcy, and analysts predict more may be in the offing. Far from being isolated incidents of a few profligate municipalities, the global economic downturn has demonstrated the sobering reality of fiscal imbalance, one that is threatening larger cities and even countries around the world.
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… in an earthen dam outside of Philadelphia, Mississippi, President Johnson directed White House counsel Lee C. White …
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… to smart infrastructure, these are steps the next president should take: Establish a digital infrastructure … of how this technology will infringe on privacy. The next president should convene a digital infrastructure council … The next administration can start by having the president establish a digital infrastructure council, made up …
The infrastructure needed for today’s economy is rapidly changing with advances in information technology (IT)—infrastructure that integrates both physical and digital components will be critical to delivering the next wave of social and economic change.
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… “war hawks” more land for territorial expansion. Rather, President Madison reluctantly moved to war as a response to … viability as a republic into the future. Similarly, President Polk did not initiate the war against Mexico in … détente in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy seriously contemplated …
Throughout the nation’s history, the U.S. has waged wars to protect its commercial interests
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… initially did not oppose the war in Vietnam. He supported President Kennedy’s policies to increase the flow of aid and … to support such policies when Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency upon JFK’s assassination. Senator Kennedy agreed … government. He grew increasingly disillusioned with President Johnson’s reports on the war and questioned their …
In 1966, Senator Kennedy wrote his first critical statement on Vietnam, marking the beginning of his transition from hawk to dove. One of his main concerns regarding Vietnam dealt with the war’s impact on the American people.
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… James L. Farmer Jr. for a meeting at the White House, President Johnson vented to counsel Lee C. White about the …
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… the debt under either candidate’s plan. Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget … Campaign to Fix the Debt , offers her advice to the next president about fiscal issues in her essay, Tough Choices , …
The impact of the fiscal policies proposed by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
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… President Donald Trump has offered relatively few details … standards, seem likely to be reversed or eased. And the president has promised to “cancel” the Paris climate … with responsibility varying between them under different presidents. That matters because every White House policy …
The Trump Administration still should do more than identify priorities. The administration, like any other, should develop a comprehensive energy strategy that identifies energy policy objectives and is clear about what problems it is trying to solve with government action.
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… not be more relevant to our enduring mission. We study the presidency. We study our democracy. And we engage in public … ago, we launched a major project with a core assumption: Presidents need to be prepared for crises. This crisis has tested President Donald Trump as a leader and as a manager. More …
The COVID-19 crisis is testing the world, our nation, and our government. The crisis is as grand and complex as any world challenge ever—combining elements of past world wars, global financial crises, and natural and humanitarian disasters.
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… people the resources to move into the middle class. President Franklin Roosevelt famously partnered with New … projects. Cities can provide those goods again. The next president can help them do so. Cities are huge generators of …
New York and Chicago are increasingly desirable places to live and cities like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are seeing their populations and property values stabilize after a long period of relative decline. This nascent urban resurgence should remind us that cities have always been engines of economic creativity, ingenuity, and opportunity.
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… urban infrastructure should be a top priority for the next president. The growth of early U.S. cities was limited by the … that vision and leadership, above all, is the next president’s task. …
The 21st century will be a century of cities. Long the engines of American innovation, cities are supplying fresh ideas and vital economic growth, and in an interconnected world, they are working collaboratively across national boundaries to deal with big issues.
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… population. To address these urgent problems, the incoming president must carefully frame the debate around income … of new technologies provides opportunities for the next president to push innovative ideas that address inequality by … income inequality should be a high priority for the next president. However, there are at least four factors that …
Along with terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics, and the prospect of persistently low economic growth, inequality has crept up the international policy agenda to become one of the most urgent and important issues of our time.
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… p.m., Professor Michelle Holder. Holder is the new President and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable … March 24, 2022, 11:00 a.m.–12:00. p.m. Two months into President Biden’s second year in office, join an expert panel …
Upcoming contributors to the project will expand its depth and scope
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… holding the memories, insights, and reflections of former presidents and the officials that made their administrations … History Program, which conducts interviews with former presidents and White House officials and compiles them into …
The Miller Center's own Gail Hyder Wiley: Editor of presidential interviews and community activist.
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… Some 30 minutes after leaving Dallas, Texas, the site of President John F. “Jack” Kennedy’s assassination hours earlier, President and Lady Bird Johnson placed a telephone call to …