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… triumvirate. Browne arrived shortly after the Truehearts did, Sheehan and Halberstam in mid-1962. Their fearless … New York Times correspondent was scarcely a lapdog. He was Homer Bigart, a crusty old newsman who had reported …
Washington and Saigon fought with the American press
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… will face enormous pressure to take decisive action on how immigration admissions and rights are governed. But the … will face enormous pressure to take decisive action on how immigration admissions and rights are governed. But the … Act, passed during the first year of Chester A. Arthur’s presidency (he replaced the slain James A. Garfield in …
Whoever moves into the White House in 2017 will face enormous pressure to take decisive action on how immigration admissions and rights are governed. But the experts who contributed essays to this First Year volume on immigration differ substantially in their prescriptions.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… up, and with my early days in the United States Senate—how the opportunity to become involved in it from a policy … stroke, which really disabled him in a very important way. He lived on for a number of years afterwards, but I saw the …
Presidential Biographies
… the saying that in America, anyone can grow up to become President. Born in a log cabin in North Carolina to nearly illiterate parents, Andrew Johnson did not master the basics of reading, grammar, or math until he met his wife at the age of seventeen. The only other man …
Presidential Biographies
… Lady Lucy Hayes. And as a subject for journalists, Lucy did not disappoint. Though Lucy Hayes was the first first … Grant. Although it was the First Lady who encouraged the President to complete the monument to George Washington that … It was a view Rutherford B. Hayes seemed to support when he commented, "I don't know how much influence Mrs. Hayes has …
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… I certainly believe that. It was a very small thing that I did bringing these tapes to light. I simply answered a … House Chief of Staff. But we did not have that term then. He was never, ever called or referred to as White House Chief …
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… President Donald Trump at One Year January 18, 2018 Decatur … (moderator) • Ron Christie , Special Assistant to the President, George W. Bush Chris Lu , Deputy Secretary of … than a three-panel discussion two days shy of the end of President Donald Trump’s first year in office—at the Decatur …
On January 18, 2018, Miller Center presidential scholars and veteran White House practitioners came together to animate the work of our First Year Project through discussions on national security, domestic policy, management of the federal government, White House communications, and legislative affairs.
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… group talks about the October Camp David meeting with the President after 9/11 and the immediate plans to respond in … senior people from the Defense Department during the 43rd Presidency. We’re very much looking forward to hearing from … foreign policy–making community in the period when President Clinton was serving in office, both to get a sense …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… interview by discussing his personal relationship with President George W. Bush and the Bush family. He talks about the 2000 presidential election, including Dick … little bit about your relationship with the man who became President, George W. Bush, and how you got to know him over …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… of transportation and White House chief of staff. He begins by telling us about his early relationship with the Bush camp and how he became active in the 1988 campaign. He discusses how … how I met President Bush, what our relationship was before he became President, what it was afterwards, and what it is …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… of Energy, during the Carter administration. She joins President-elect Bill Clinton's transition team in 1992 where … serving in this role until 1997. She describes in length how the Justice Department operated during this period, … commission, or task force, as it was wrapping up its work, President Carter shuffled his Cabinet and decided to replace …
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… Katz argues in his First Year essay, Go Local , the next president and Congress should deputize cities to tackle the … has been the most city-friendly in years. The president’s Chicago roots gave him and his advisers direct experience with urban politics, and he spotlighted the plight of the cities in his 2008 campaign. …
David Dagan explains the partisan edge of the "new American localism"
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… very grateful. Tunney It’s a pleasure to be with you. How do you want us to start? Knott Jim and I were talking … his brother had tried to win the nomination for the Vice Presidency. So John Kennedy was a big name in the country, in … law school, and I was introduced to Ted. The first thing he said to me was, Your father arranged to have a sauna built …
Oral History Interviews
| Gerald Ford Project… implications; and cabinet relations with the staff and the President. Participants Ford White House Staff James H. … Coordination at the Presidential Level Gerald Ford Presidency President Ford - Speeches President Ford - … say that a good presidential decision is one in which the President is not surprised at what happened after that …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with him. Basically, I suppose it’s neglected because he was not on the Foreign Relations Committee, but it was … thinking was, what the nature of his involvement was, and how he decided what to grab hold of and get into. His …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… ask you to tell us a little bit about your background, how you first became involved in politics. You were talking … a young kid my father was a colonel in World War II, so he was away a lot of the time. My mother brought up the kids, as many moms did in those days, and we had a great family. My father was a …
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… By the time George W. Bush entered the White House, the presidency was in an institutionally diminished state. … on his own wisecracking ways, occasionally quipped that he had his father’s eyes and his mother’s (acerbic) mouth. … George W., and George H. W. Bush During the Cold War, the presidency was an empowered institution in a state of …
By the time George W. Bush entered the White House, the presidency was in an institutionally diminished state.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Michael Dukakis, on November 9, 2009, in Boston. When did you first meet [Edward M.] Kennedy, and what were your … Law School and I was a member of the Law School Democrats. He was a member of the Harvard Corporation—He wasn’t on the …
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… in 2008 that I would be in charge of managing the cabinet, he explained my job responsibilities as: "No surprises. I … “no surprises” edict goes both ways. The cabinet is the president’s team—they run the daily operations of the … with agency experts and lawyers was not always fun, but it did ensure that everyone understood the policy and how it was …
New presidential administrations, particularly Republican ones, like to say that they’re going to run government more like a business. Whether this is possible or even desirable, we now have a business executive in the Oval Office who can test this proposition—and the initial reviews are mixed.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… her to pursue a career in politics. Cutter discusses how she came to serve as Senator Kennedy’s communications … in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Cutter discusses how Senator Kennedy came to support Obama over the Clintons, … you came vetted by Mary Beth and what he wanted to see was how well you fit with him. Cutter Yes, and I think he felt …