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… side? What did they do wrong, and what was President Donald Trump doing that is similar? Run scared. Proud as Josef … institutions and responsibilities, but by abandoning them, Trump was creating a vacuum for others to fill. Dominate …
How Biden can deal with ongoing tensions with China.
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… states like Georgia and Arizona, while President Donald Trump targeted longtime Democratic-bastion Minnesota. …
Policies dating to the 1930s helped shape the conflict that defines today's politics.
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… Brexit. Three-and-a-half months later, Americans elected Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. Did …
Watch: Miller Center Historian Will Hitchcock looks at Emmanuel Macron's victory over Marine Le Pen
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… favor is that despite some policy similarities between Donald Trump and Sanders—most notably their criticism of free trade—Trump’s hostility to immigrants and total lack of so-called …
As we look beyond the 2016 election season, there seem to be three prospects for the partisan makeup of the federal government next year.
Presidential Biographies
… who served as the Senate Majority Leader. President Donald Trump nominated Elaine Chao to serve as Secretary of …
Public Events
… an American citizen, that citizenship is a bond. FACTOID: Trump: Legally not paying federal income taxes “makes me …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Tony Blair; Cindy Sheehan; Iraq War; relationship with Donald Rumsfeld; terrorism leading up to 9/11; September 11 … President honored that request. There was an issue about [Donald] Rumsfeld, as the President talks about in his book. …
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… nomination on January 31, 2017, ten days after President Donald Trump was inaugurated Like nearly everything about the Trump … court vacancies occur so early in a presidential term. In Trump’s case, the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia … The vacancy Trump is filling is unprecedented, but there are many and …
Seven presidents—more than half of those who have served starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt—had the opportunity to nominate a member of the nation’s highest court during their first year in office. But no president in this period had a Supreme Court vacancy waiting for him as he entered the White House, giving him the opportunity to nominate a justice in the first two weeks of his presidency.
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… the Senate can apply to Carter and even to some extent to Donald Trump: “The Outsider feels impelled to stand for principle … him strongly.” 1 Similar to Jimmy Carter, President-elect Donald Trump sees being an outsider as a strength, not a …
Jimmy Carter was the outsider candidate, campaigning against “the swamp,” and his advisors encouraged Carter to continue to project himself that way.
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… midst of a generational financial and economic crisis. For Donald Trump, the challenge of his first months came from his … that the more than 70 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump have good-faith concerns about the future of our …
When presidents first take office, they usually find that winning the election isn't the hard part.
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… of democracy are undesirable and dangerous. In Donald Trump, populists found their leader. From the moment he … in power through lies and violence. This, the final act of Trump’s presidential term, was wholly fitting. It was a …
Extraordinary unilateral executive power threatens democracy
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… that improving race relations is a priority for President Donald Trump. President Obama’s successor, Donald J. Trump, …
Despite the election of our nation’s first black president—and in some ways, perhaps because of that fact—America, in the realm of race, remains embroiled in crisis, controversy, and catastrophe. That need not be the case, especially if we as a nation, and our new president individually, are willing to learn hard lessons from the Obama era and move forward.
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… program). Demonstrators in New York City protest President Trump’s rescission of the Deferred Action For Childhood … try and limit presidential power. Subsequently, President Donald Trump’s attorney general announced its repeal seven …
Protecting each branch’s constitutional role preserves checks in the short run and balance in the long term, writes Barbara A. Perry.
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… once again following the recent guilty pleas by President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, … orders of a “very senior member” of then-president-elect Trump’s transition team, asked Kislyak to delay or veto a …
Thanks to the Miller Center’s collection of Secret White House Tapes, we know Chennault, a top Republican fundraiser, was a go-between for Nixon in 1968 to disrupt peace talks.
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… go beyond both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Presidents have become more powerful. They also are … allow presidents to increasingly act unilaterally – from Trump’s declaring an emergency to build a border wall, to …
Presidents have become more powerful. They also are more prone to failure.
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… Castro pointed to the repeated demands by former President Donald Trump for audits of the results of the 2020 election, despite … more fundamental,” Castro said. “Both Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump at one point in their political careers called …
“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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… But that was when the president was Richard Nixon, not Donald Trump. Impeachment: 1974 vs. today I wrote a book on the origins of Watergate , so I get asked a lot how Trump’s impeachment inquiry compares with Nixon’s. Much …
Once, not so long ago, congressional Republicans were impeachment’s constitutional stalwarts.
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… Obama presidency to the response to COVID-19 by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden. To mark the 10th anniversary of …
Major conference examined lessons learned from the Affordable Care Act
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… [Read the full article in US News ] How to assess Donald Trump’s First Year? The president claims credit for a booming …
Miller Center Director and CEO William Antholis lays out the case for the "5 Ps" in a presidential first year.
Presidential Speeches
… President Donald Trump talks about his administration's approach to …