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… eliminated Poland from the political map of Europe, it did so in close collaboration with Prussia and Austria, who … strategic isolation. Of course, Putin did not think that he would be waging a major war in Europe: he did not believe that Ukraine was European, he did not even …
Can Putin’s government, or any likely alternative, fully accept the implications of Ukrainian sovereignty? That is, can Moscow accept the premises of a “Good Neighbor” policy, abstaining from efforts to manipulate Kyiv’s internal affairs and focusing exclusively on the two countries’ international interactions?
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… President Nixon would play China against the Soviet Union, … President Richard Nixon, like his arch-rival President John … conservative wing of the Republican Party, and although he had made his own career as a militant opponent of … President Richard Nixon made an unprecedented trip to Beijing …
President Nixon would play China against the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union against China, and both against North Vietnam.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Hull, Massachusetts. Let’s start at the beginning. Tell me how you first met Edward Kennedy. Lahage I was working for … That was my first job, and it started in ’61. Heininger How did you get the job? Lahage In the summer of 1960 I had … yes. Lahage Anyway, the administrative assistant came out. He must have been in a good mood, and we chatted for a couple …
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… Mueller has turned his investigation to the first family, President Trump tweeted last weekend that he has the “complete power to pardon.” His aides and lawyers …
The constitutional text and history regarding presidential pardons shows that Trump has the Constitution, if not the politics, about right.
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… leaving a federal government position. One year later, I did the same. Thanks to a succession of think tank posts at … Miller Center, which specializes in the American presidency, political history, and public policy. We are a … my two worlds collided violently. And not just because the president of the United States was unable to quiet the storm. …
Yesterday my retreat became the frontline in America’s culture war. And yesterday’s event was different than any I’ve ever experienced.
Presidential Biographies
… taking dancing lessons despite his tendency to obesity. He loved baseball, and he was a good second baseman and a … served as secretary of war and then attorney general in President Ulysses S. Grant's cabinet. President Chester A. … William Taft: Life Before the Presidency …
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… full version of this story appears at the Atlantic . What did the president say? And how did he say it? These riffs on the questions that … American presidents have long recorded their conversations …
FDR, Richard Nixon, and others in between generated thousands of hours of audio from meetings and telephone calls. Is Donald Trump doing the same?
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… with a strong sense of service, Edward Kennedy recounts how his family inspired his own approach to public service. … Edward M. Kennedy: An Oral History , by Barbara Perry] T he last of Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s nine children arrived on … really talk about in politics, and what is most important—how you’re going to relate to people…. I think my brother …
Raised in a political dynasty with a strong sense of service, Edward Kennedy recounts how his family inspired his own approach to public service.
Presidential Biographies
… education was limited because of financial restraints. He had to cut school short in order to help on the family … Democrats to vote against the Kansas-Nebraska Act because he did not want slavery to spread into the territories. He …
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… European observers, nothing dramatic emerged from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day speech on Red Square on May 9 concerning the Russian war in Ukraine: He did not declare victory or formal war; he did not announce …
A reduced scope of war objectives indicates possible options for settlement of the war.
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… We have seen this movie before, and I am fairly certain how it will end. Barring some potential massive revelation, President Trump will not be leaving the White House prior to … on whataboutism, analogizing to what others have done. “He is no worse than others in the swamp” will be the refrain. …
This controversy, like the many that have preceded it, is being refracted through partisan prisms. When that happens, as it invariably does in our polarized national climate, incumbents can breathe a sigh of relief.
Presidential Biographies
… Few could have predicted the course of George W. Bush’s presidency based on his campaign or tenure as governor of … determine the shape and fate of the Bush presidency. Bush did not take his governing decisions lightly, beginning to … more than a year before the actual presidential election. He picked a veteran vice president, Dick Cheney, to serve as …
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… as best they can, the counterintelligence story: how the Russian government carried out a series of covert operations to intervene in the election of a U.S. president, and how Americans may have encouraged or worked with the foreign … as best they can, the counterintelligence story: how the Russian government carried out a series of covert …
Our government and citizens are certainly entitled to understand, as best they can, the counterintelligence story: how the Russian government carried out a series of covert operations to intervene in the election of a U.S. president, and how Americans may have encouraged or worked with the foreign agents.
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… Today, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as our 46th president, and Kamala Harris will be sworn in as his vice … His first steps will be to address the pandemic, and then he will turn to the economic devastation it has wrought— … of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like.” That proceeding was the confirmation of an …
American inaugurations evoke optimism and reconciliation. That’s been the case since the first transfer of peaceful transfer of power between opposing parties.
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… Starr’s inquiry may offer a preview of what’s to come for President Trump’s staff, writes Miller Center scholar Russell … if undesirable, club. Perhaps the best way to see how the administration’s inner life will look in the coming … by the Justice Department—or, it should be noted, by the president. Too, Mueller has a sterling reputation as a …
Firsthand accounts from the Clinton White House during Kenneth Starr’s inquiry may offer a preview of what’s to come for President Trump’s staff, writes Miller Center scholar Russell Riley in the Atlantic.
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… The Hague or the Vatican. My father was a storekeeper. He had a series of what seemed to be diminishingly successful … as a backstop. Because I wasn’t at all nervous about it, I did very well. Perry And you were at Columbia [University] …
Presidential Biographies
… were asked by the Chicago Tribune to rate all the Presidents through Jimmy Carter in five categories: … At the top of the list stood Abraham Lincoln. He was followed by Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, … the rate scale. Roosevelt fell into second place because he did not measure up to Lincoln in character. Washington, …
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… in the other three countries. As soon as Clinton became president, he appointed First Lady Hillary Clinton to head the Health …
Our look at past debate promises starts with health care
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… discusses Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, the Middle East, and President William J. Clinton's relationship with his foreign … very infrequently do, which is to send a note telling her how much I enjoyed reading this book. It is truly an … about the institutions in the time that you served with President Carter and at the point you come back and begin …
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… named to the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 2002. And that is how I will remember her: a paradoxical combination of humble … dubbed with the acronym “SOC,” came from seeing her preside over a moot court competition at the University of Virginia Law School in the 1980s, shortly after President Ronald Reagan named her to the nation’s highest …
Although down-to-earth from her cowgirl childhood, O’Connor could reveal an imperious persona on the bench.