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… Year team of experts offers essential readings on the 42nd president … The first year of a new president’s first term is always a crucible. But often it’s … accomplished wife, and rumors of bad-boy behavior, that he came from a life of privilege. Or, to borrow a term not …
Our First Year team of experts offers essential readings on the 42nd president
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… As secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, who died on March … lot of time on the Hill as a Cabinet member testifying. I did that both as UN ambassador and as secretary of state. I … the Carter administration in a very limited way, because he was deputy director of policy planning and I was a staffer …
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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… GOP debate: Ask Jeb Bush and Chris Christie about how they responded to Hurricanes Charley and Sandy, not how … of drunk drivers reframed his views of the world, not if he is “more like Reagan” than the other candidates. The next president will likely face an unexpected crisis in the first …
Some unsolicited advice to the debate moderators at this Wednesday’s GOP debate
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… Now that the Electoral College has cast its votes, President-elect Biden faces a new secession crisis. Unlike … Now that the Electoral College has cast its votes, President-elect Biden faces a new secession crisis. Unlike … a nation as “an imagined community.” Anderson showed how the spread of newspapers in the late 1700s helped to …
Now that the Electoral College has cast its votes, President-elect Biden faces a new secession crisis. Unlike the one faced by Abraham Lincoln during his transition in 1860 and 1861, this one will not lead to civil war. But Joe Biden still must address it—first by uniting the supermajority of Americans who are committed to a united state of reality.
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… Assistant to the President for Policy Development … the direct line of connection between the [Richard] Nixon Presidency and the Reagan Presidency, or the political … what [Dwight] Eisenhower supported when he was Vice President. It was becoming a very controversial issue. I …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Al Gore's 1992 Campaign Manager; Chief of Staff to the Vice President; Deputy White House Chief of Staff … Roy Neel reflects on his memories of working with Vice President Al Gore, the 1992 campaign, the presidential … the House. Then when we got to the Senate, he ran for President and then I became his Chief of Staff. So I’ll stop …
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… history team to recall the maneuvering in Congress during President Clinton's impeachment hearings. Here is an excerpt … think a complete picture has been painted about where he was on this when it was building in the House, or about …
Senator Ted Kennedy's chief legislative assistant recalls "partisan politics at its ugliest" during the Clinton impeachment hearings.
Presidential Biographies
… their division of labor in the White House. Mamie actually did little of the cooking -- the White House had many … -- but she quickly took charge of that staff, making clear how she wanted things to work in the living quarters of the … between home and office in the White House and that the President had ample time for relaxation. She saw that there …
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… facts are known about these recordings. When Truman became president on April 12, 1945, he inherited the RCA Continuous-film Recording machine that … 1940 Presidential election campaign. Although Roosevelt did not use the machine again after his reelection, he did …
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… A new president's success is limited by structural and … correlated with the subsequent success or failure of a president’s time in office.” How true! With the obvious exception of Franklin D. …
A new president's success is limited by structural and institutional realities
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… How the December 1989 invasion of Panama shaped the Bush 41 … of it,” says Powell. “But I viewed it as the template of how we should do things.” Less than a year after the Panama … How the December 1989 invasion of Panama shaped the Bush 41 …
How the December 1989 invasion of Panama shaped the Bush 41 foreign policy team
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… once noted with respect to his actions on slavery, where he said, “I confess not to have controlled events but that … those global events controlled what the administration did. Lawrence Summers One’s thinking evolves over time, so it … began I had the view—and it always seemed to me that the President had a similar view, though he would have put it in …
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… political history. First years matter enormously for presidents, oftentimes in ways that are beyond immediate … first year in office can be said to have begun well before he took the oath of office on March 4, 1861. Beginning on … as is more often the case than we might expect, that a president’s first year might begin before she or he ever …
Saladin Ambar tries to make sense of successful (and not-so successful) presidential first years
Presidential Biographies
… and Election of 1904: After Roosevelt acceded to the presidency in 1901, he soon began to think about how to win election as President in his own right. He …
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… was on the eve of celebrating his first Fourth of July as president when the New York Times published its first story … joke: “Larry, does the president think it might help if he suggested the gays cut down on their cruising?" As for the … deaths, which totaled more than 40,000. When asked about how schools should educate children about the crisis, the …
U.S. policy to attack HIV/AIDS worldwide evolved after a dismissive and ineffectual start.
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… In this excerpt from the interview, Lance, who was one of President Carter's closest confidantes, asserts that Rosalynn … who usually wanted to put politics off to the side when he was making policy. Bert Lance : I think that if you …
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… The presidency, penned Alexander Hamilton in 1788 following the … “are the ingredients which will constitute this energy,” he asked in the Federalist #70. “How far can they be combined with those other ingredients … Origins of the Modern American Presidency …
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… What the morning of 9/11 was like for President Bush and his staff. … is, quite literally, an account of the George W. Bush presidency on 9/11—the day itself, not the events or the … events that marked the crisis, as well as the president’s urgent responses as they unfolded in the …
What the morning of 9/11 was like for President Bush and his staff.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of the Judiciary Committee or the Education Committee, and he chose the Education Committee. And some people were quite … on the language. So it took a lot of work, but we finally did come out with a report. We finished not long before the …
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… George W. Bush, as a post-Cold War president, came to office with modest aims. … on his own wisecracking ways, occasionally quipped that he had his father’s eyes and his mother’s (acerbic) mouth. … much more important from his father once he became president: an institution transformed by the successful …
George W. Bush, as a post-Cold War president, came to office with modest aims.