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Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… every nation, their national policies are always going to trump some kind of global governance mechanism. But how major …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… I didn't have that feeling that expediency wouldn't trump what he should do and how his constitutional …
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… view during the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Assuming the leadership of an embattled Democratic …
The uneasy collaboration between Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights movement marked a development more than fifty years in the making thanks to the advent of the modern presidency during the Progressive Era.
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… Memorandum for President Trump Subject: Your Energy Inbox in Year 1 As a candidate, … for the rest of the industrial economy. President Donald Trump appointed Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental …
Given the challenge of passing comprehensive energy legislation—even with a Republican-controlled Congress—the executive branch has inherited a number of administrative decisions from the Obama Administration.
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… this specialized macroeconomic and financial training. Trump’s early circle of advisers is notable for the absence … of intellectual diversity is not an obvious feature of Trump’s initial group of advisers. Third, focus first on …
Financial crises happen when you least expect them, including soon after a new president takes office. Containing a crisis can require quick decision making and action before the new administration has accrued significant experience.
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… for crises. This crisis has tested President Donald Trump as a leader and as a manager. More than the president, …
The COVID-19 crisis is testing the world, our nation, and our government. The crisis is as grand and complex as any world challenge ever—combining elements of past world wars, global financial crises, and natural and humanitarian disasters.
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… things by political experts that he always managed to trump; that is, he had been counted out many a time in his …
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… yet they got “Brexited” at about the time that we got Trump. Then there’s the more extreme anti-establishment …
In the crucial period of six months between the time Lehman Brothers fell and the period after the stress test, America rose to the occasion.
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… transitions can be a vulnerable time. President Donald Trump could create or inherit situations that might lead to a …
The George H. W. Bush oral history project examines Somalia and the transition from Bush to Clinton
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… more forcefully on behalf of democracy than President Trump was inclined to do. In the current moment, even our …
The 1821 Greek War of Independence is a case study that still informs our diplomacy.
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… the relationship between congressional Republicans and the Trump administration, 2017 has so far been a year of massive …
The president's battles with his own party could not come at a worse time.
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… them, as the search for international stability often trumped efforts toward meaningful and lasting reform. While …
“Who would want to read a book on disasters?” That was the question John F. Kennedy put to an aide in late 1961 upon hearing that journalists were thinking about writing books on the first year of his presidency. It was a loaded question, as Kennedy was quite familiar with the book market, having written two popular volumes of history, including one on a political and military disaster. And there was no denying that his previous 12 months had been filled with foreign policy missteps—the most notable being the failed invasion at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs.
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… cycle. And for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump, it has been the speed, immediacy, and many-to-many …
What must the next president do in the first year to manage the overheated, ubiquitous, yet fragmented media environment in which we find ourselves today?
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… time, where problem solving and policy orchestration trump transformative visions and populist interventions. …
If I were to advise the next president on inauguration eve, I would remind him or her that the oath they will take the following midday will start an implacable four year countdown. But I would also point out that the calendar is only one measure of time for the nation’s political leader.
Presidential Biographies
… President William Clinton, the third was President Donald Trump—involved complicated issues of law, politics, and …
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… even more interactive. As of the summer of 2016, Donald Trump’s “activity network”—meaning the number of times voters …
In the not-too-distant past, many of us got our political news either from the print copy of a local newspaper on our doorstep at daybreak or from the broadcast networks’ nightly news. There wasn’t a whole lot of choice. These days, we curate our own content.