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… how easy this will be to reassert in the wake of Donald Trump), a commitment to the value of U.S. alliances and … Americans. This does not mean that they endorse Donald Trump’s not-so-“easy-to-win” trade wars (although it is worth …
The initial statements and early national security appointments of President-elect Joe Biden should help lay to rest any lingering fears from the recent presidential campaign that he was suffering from low-grade dementia and that he would easily become a tool of the Democratic Party’s left wing.
Presidential Speeches
… President Donald Trump announces the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the …
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… race relations is a priority for President Donald Trump. President Obama’s successor, Donald J. Trump, generated very little confidence among African … was a priority for him. Nonetheless, if President Trump is sincere in his stated promise to be the president of …
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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… legal status. The support was lower among self-identified Trump supporters, but even there 58 percent (45 and 13) … reform come about? Almost surely not through a Donald Trump victory. Despite the polling data on his supporters’ … action on comprehensive reform legislation. If an anti-Trump backlash hands both the Senate and the House to the …
The Supreme Court wants immigration resolved in the political arena
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… 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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… There’s little doubt that much of Donald Trump’s appeal in 2016 is precisely his lack of political …
President Carter remembers what it was like to try to govern after winning the election as an outsider
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… It seems unlikely at this writing that President Donald Trump will experience a full partisan reversal in 2026. But …
Russell Riley describes when U.S. presidents have modified institutional practices to address emergencies.
Public Events
… and counter-threats in 2017, however, President Donald Trump met with Chairman Kim Jong-un of the Democratic …
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… one another.” Senator Bob Corker, considered to be on Mr. Trump’s short list for VP just weeks ago, agreed: “I think … people that he’s going to put in place.” Corker found Mr. Trump’s indication of potential Supreme Court nominees back …
What private sector transitions can—and cannot—teach the next president?
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… while laying the groundwork for one planned on the Donald Trump administration. The author or co-author of five books … director of legislative affairs for President Donald Trump, and Melody Barnes, former director of domestic policy … interview was part of preliminary research for a planned Trump oral history project, and the Barnes interview was part …
Barbara Perry's approach to presidential oral history is scrupulously balanced.
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… The collapse of Biden’s Build Back Better plan and Donald Trump’s drive to repeal and replace Obamacare offer two … tallies, see Gary C. Jacobson, “Driven to Extremes: Donald Trump’s Extraordinary Impact on the 2020 Elections,” …
Bipartisan support is indispensable for lawmaking.
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… by $2 million for those in the top 0.1 percent. Donald Trump would cut taxes for this group by $1.3 million. (John … compared to 3 percent for the middle quintile. Under the Trump plan, the after-tax income of the very rich would …
William Gale and Aaron Krupkin write about the next president's tax plans
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… President Donald Trump’s critical attitude toward international trade and … system and bring the world economy back toward growth. The Trump administration's international economic priorities … powers would make this a diplomatic challenge. Given Trump’s apparent lack of enthusiasm for such cooperative …
International finance is likely to present the administration with some of its most difficult challenges in its first year. Indeed, some of the new administration’s policies are likely to increase the possibility of international financial instability. The most pressing international economic trial facing the new American president may well be reducing this danger, and preparing to confront it should a new financial crisis hit.
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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.
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… with the firing of FBI Director James Comey on May 9, the Trump administration has spent the last week dealing with a … all of these ousters may be interrelated with the Russia-Trump investigation. Q. How has controversy led to White … elsewhere. All you have to do is look at what happened to Trump last week. He could have come out of the week with a …
Miller Center expert Barbara Perry on what history tells us about presidents and their self-inflicted wounds
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… 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.
Presidential Speeches
… cry — hue and cry when we were doing the same thing when Trump’s tax bill passed and 83 percent of the money went to …
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… months. Sound familiar? While this might describe Donald Trump’s first 70 days in office, it also describes another … with President Carter. What are the lessons for President Trump? That it is not too late to reengage with the global …
On Monday, the Miller Center will release a new set of First Year Project essays suggesting how the new president might address the global economy. Some of the leading economic policy minds in the country—including noted GOP economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who examines one of the critical issues in this article—lay out an agenda on some of our thorniest policy challenges.
Presidential Speeches
… President Trump addresses the Republican members of the US House and …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… as a whole put too much faith in how policy can trump politics, as it pertained to health care, in designing … probably two naive expectations: one, that policy would trump politics; and two, that we needed to listen to those …