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… In First Friends , Gary Ginsberg, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, breaks new literary ground on … The Powerful, Unsung, (Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents’ …
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… Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership Lessons from American Presidents …
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… Can we all just get along? The new president and the Supreme Court …
Presidential Recordings
… “The Vice Presidency Is an Impossible Job” … day after his nomination as the Democratic candidate for president, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. called … 'The Vice Presidency Is an Impossible Job' …
Presidential Biographies
… to engage with public life. Almost immediately after his presidency, he was elected president of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle. In that … James Madison: Life After the Presidency …
Presidential Biographies
… the College of New Jersey, Madison studied under its new president, John Witherspoon, the second Scottish immigrant … life. After backing Jefferson’s unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1796, Madison retired from Congress as John … James Madison: Life Before the Presidency …
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… Republican camp. This section examines the ways in which presidents responded to the technological development of … television and advertising in politics as he became a “TV President” by regularly visiting the living rooms of voters … The Presidency in the Television Era …
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… His World: Two Scholars of Eisenhower Discuss A Legendary President …
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… Reflections on the Ford Presidency, Problems of Unscheduled Presidential Transition …
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… South Africa: A British Perspective and The American Presidency as Viewed from Abroad …
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… American Presidency Viewed from Iran and Constitutionalism in Iran and …
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… Changing Relations Between the President and Congress and the Nature of the Dialogue Between …
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… Everett Dirkson, the Modern Presidents, and the Politics of the Supra-partisan Washington …
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… The Reagan Paradox: How the 40th President Baffles His Biographers …
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… and McCain have, in effect, promised to be "post-partisan" presidents. But, given the important differences between the … Institution Galston is a former policy advisor to President Clinton as well as the Saul I. Stern Professor of … NOW WHAT?: Can the new president rise above partisan polarization to govern …
Presidential Speeches
… President Truman reports on the United States’ use of the … to defeat Japan in World War II. In the address, the President describes the destructive force of the new weapon … invasion. For these reasons Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt agreed that it was wise to carry on the …
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… A recent Washington symposium celebrated President Harry Truman’s 1948 signing of Executive Order … on the 21st century’s two Republican and two Democratic presidents, an objective observer can take heart that many of … Presidents versus the Supreme Court …
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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… the National Interest: How Bundy and McNamara Advised the President …
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… it is possible to tabulate a national popular vote for president, although not from every state. Before 1824, … Delegates Selected in Democratic Primaries,” American Presidency Project (n.d.), … Electing the president: The people's power …
A true national vote would be an obvious reform yet hard to achieve.
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… history, helping us understand how greatness in the presidency was achieved, why it’s gone, and how we can better come to appreciate the presidents we have rather than be consumed with the ones we want. Miller is both vice president for new initiatives and a distinguished scholar at …