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Presidential Biographies
… Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, was the dominant actor in … most venerable political organization. During his two-term presidency, he expanded executive powers and transformed the …
Presidential Biographies
… 35 percent of those surveyed supported his handling of the presidency. Beginning in 1947, Truman worked assiduously to … 1948, Truman's former secretary of commerce (and vice president during Roosevelt's third term), Henry Wallace, …
Public Events
… We take a look back at the beginning of the Trump presidency, from his campaign to the start of his first year … DOUGLAS BLACKMON This week on American Forum President Trump made big promises to America; has he kept … can argue that that’s exactly what has happened. A Trump presidency…one party control of Congress and yet paralysis …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… to have that—to maintain my viability in the system, as President Clinton would have described it. I came out of the … public signs of disrespect by private officers toward the President. The fact that you were an expert in this area, as … I did in my first month on the NSC staff was arranging the President’s involvement in Colin Powell’s retirement …
Presidential Biographies
… With the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, Vice … governance, the Democratic Party, and the office of the presidency during his unprecedented twelve years in office. …
Presidential Recordings
… 3:06 pm - 3:10 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with White House operator. Call from … -Conditions -Area -Time -Duration -Announcement -The President’s view -Nguyen Van Thieu -Kissinger’s plans -Haig’s … -Meeting with the President -Time -Saigon time -The President's schedule -Campaigning in New York -Timing -The …
Presidential Biographies
… Historians do not rank Grover Cleveland as a great President. Even as a party leader, the consensus is that he … any obligation to party workers. This was a concept of the presidency as monarchical if not imperial. He viewed the … more racially intolerant, and certainly when compared to Presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and …
Public Events
… and Soviet Communism. But now, something has changed. President Trump is pulling out of global alliances and has … and national security from the 1920s through the Obama presidency. … German parliament for the first time since the Nazi era. President Trump is threatening to pull out of key global …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… bit before. I actually liked Jimmy Carter when he was President. Riley So you’re old enough to remember that? Dybul … go, but I couldn’t. And then—one advantage of being the president’s assistant is without any premed classes I could …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… criminal justice process. I had been U.S. attorney under President [George H. W.] Bush, so I was well known to people … the personnel people. This must have been right after the President was inaugurated, maybe slightly before but probably … coming from…? Chertoff The Defense Department and the Vice President’s Office generally had the view that pretty much …
Presidential Biographies
… First Lady Melania Trump Vice President JD Vance Secretary of State Marco Rubio Secretary …
Presidential Biographies
… life.” For that reason, assessments of the Kennedy presidency remain mixed. Kennedy played a role in … an essential complement to substance. Before winning the presidency, Kennedy had lived a life of privilege and … in South Vietnam deteriorated; by the end of Kennedy's presidency, 16,000 US military “advisers” had been dispatched …
Presidential Biographies
… Before assuming the presidency, Jimmy Carter had been a one-term governor of a … produce profound changes in the United States, an American president talking about human rights and making those rights …
Presidential Biographies
… As President, William Howard Taft left most family and domestic … for golf also caused political problems during his presidency, when critics thought he would do well to spend … concerts, during presidential briefing sessions, and while presiding over his cabinet. At ease with his uncontrolled …
Presidential Biographies
… congressional seats in 1988 and 1990. In 1991, he became president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation. Pence then … to convince Pence, who as president of the Senate would preside over the official certification of the Electoral …
In July 2016, Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, announced that he had chosen Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate. Pence suspended his 2016 gubernatorial campaign to join Trump on the campaign trail.
Presidential Recordings
… 9:58 pm - 10:07 pm Location: Camp David Study Table The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. Memorandum -Policy … recommendations -Delivery Leonid I. Brezhnev -Meeting with President -Vodka -Friendship -Conversations with Kissinger … with President Watergate -Brezhnev’s wish for President’s reelection -President’s possible resignation …
Presidential Biographies
… from Alabama, William Rufus King, was suggested for vice president. Two weeks later, the Whigs met in Baltimore as … do with his low profile, although few candidates for the presidency in this period in American history did any …
Presidential Recordings
… am and 9:34 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Manolo Sanchez. … Ehrlichman -Timing of departures -Effect -Public opinion -President’s visit to Meridien, Mississippi on April 27, 1973 … Spiro T. Agnew -World peace -Responsibility of US presidents -Mollenhoff -President’s involvement -President’s …
Presidential Biographies
… in Congress and as a territorial governor. Where all Presidents since Washington had served extensive … means. The Tennessee legislature nominated Jackson for the presidency in 1822 and, to burnish his credentials, elected … Determined not to be paralyzed by his status as a minority President, Adams overreached with controversial policy …
Presidential Recordings
… 9:15 am - 9:17 a.m. Location: Camp David Study Table The President talked with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo. President’s activities -Support for President -Speech …