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… Nineteen months into his first term, President Dwight Eisenhower, quoting an unnamed “former college president,” advised a public audience: “I have two kinds of … Nineteen months into his first term, President Dwight Eisenhower, quoting an unnamed “former …
Nineteen months into his first term, President Dwight Eisenhower, quoting an unnamed “former college president,” advised a public audience: “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”
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… Every modern president has dwelled in the shadow of Franklin D. … Every modern president has dwelled in the shadow of Franklin D. … the nation’s history. The confidence and energy with which he tackled the Great Depression during the critical early days of his presidency set the standard by which all subsequent …
Every modern president has dwelled in the shadow of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s extraordinary beginning amid the worst economic crisis in the nation’s history.
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… The next president should build upon existing infrastructure projects … including the interstate highway network. O’Mara describes how President Dwight D. Eisenhower responded to military needs by …
The next president should build upon existing infrastructure projects such as the interstate highway system
Presidential Biographies
… FDR's mandate as a first-term President was clear and challenging: rescue the United States … believed in the premises of American capitalism, but he also saw that American capitalism circa 1932 required reform in order to survive. How much, and what kind of, reform was still up in the air. …
Presidential Speeches
… President Bush addresses Congress on the U.S. response to the … Mr. Speaker, Mr. President Pro Tempore, members of Congress, and fellow Americans: In the normal course of events, Presidents come to this chamber to report on the state of the … of this Capitol, singing “God Bless America.” And you did more than sing; you acted, by delivering $40 billion to …
Presidential Speeches
… States continues its commitment to world leadership. The President points to foreign assistance programs and the … the United States Senate, your distinguished Senator Moss, President McKay, Mr. Brown, Secretary Udall, Governor, Mr. … hearing its story retold by Ted Moss, and recalling how this State was built, and what it started with, and what …
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… Mark R. Wilson argues that the next president should rethink the budget for national security … offer their perspective on the topic of fiscal policy and how to best prepare the next president for the challenges of the first year. This series …
Mark R. Wilson argues that the next president should rethink the budget for national security
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… What can a president do to build a next-generation economy? How can economic growth widen opportunity for all Americans, … President Eisenhower focused on technological strength to … can a president do to build a next-generation economy? How can economic growth widen opportunity for all Americans, …
What can a president do to build a next-generation economy? How can economic growth widen opportunity for all Americans, not just a privileged few? Every modern American president has wrestled with some version of these two questions during his first year in office.
Presidential Speeches
… Mr. McCloy, President Plimpton, Mr. MacLeish, distinguished guests, … college is part of the United States. It belongs to it. So did Mr. Frost, in a large sense. And, therefore, I was … which I received from Mr. McCloy. The powers of the Presidency are often described. Its limitations should …
Presidential Biographies
… of national security. Bush transformed from being a President with questionable legitimacy, who had been selected … School in Sarasota to highlight education reform. As he entered the school, he received a report that an airplane …
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… Miller Center director and CEO writes about how past presidencies dealt with the big issues—and how they will impact next year's election … hindsight can serve as foresight. We believe that the presidency is at a crossroads—so much so that we have been examining how this moment compares with other pivotal points in …
Miller Center director and CEO writes about how past presidencies dealt with the big issues—and how they will impact next year's election
Presidential Speeches
… President Donald J. Trump gives his first address to the … on other countries, and immigration. Per tradition, he calls out in his speech many people he had invited to … THE PRESIDENT: Speaker Johnson, Vice President Vance, the first … disruptions. That’s your warning. REPRESENTATIVE GREEN: He has no mandate to cut Medicaid. SPEAKER JOHNSON: Members …
Presidential Speeches
… Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, distinguished guests, my very dear friends: In his … will do all in its power to assure him—that farmer—he can sell his entire yield at reasonable prices. … read some of them, too. We all benefited, at least I did, and I thank each and every one of you for this …
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… Despite the election of our nation’s first black president—and in some ways, perhaps because of that … not be the case, especially if we as a nation, and our new president individually, are willing to learn hard lessons … Despite the election of our nation’s first black president—and in some ways, perhaps because of that …
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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… urban infrastructure should be a top priority for the next president. The growth of early U.S. cities was limited by the … America’s infrastructure The story of water To appreciate how American cities are built on infrastructure, consider … capable of on its own. Only during the Great Depression did the federal government and cities begin to collaborate in …
The 21st century will be a century of cities. Long the engines of American innovation, cities are supplying fresh ideas and vital economic growth, and in an interconnected world, they are working collaboratively across national boundaries to deal with big issues.
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… is Policy Director at the Foreign Policy Initiative. He focuses on defense and strategy issues. Previously, … University Project: The Rise of the Hudson Progressives: How Governors Helped Shape the Modern Presidency Fellowship … politics and government in twentieth-century America. He is the author of The Other Rights Revolution: …
Presidential Speeches
… President Trump makes remarks in the White House the day … US Senate voted to acquit him of two impeachment charges. He thanks many people who supported him during the … and liars. And this should never, ever happen to another President ever. I don’t know that other Presidents would have …
Presidential Biographies
… Thomas Woodrow Wilson—he would later drop his first name—was born on December 28, … in the American Whig and Liberal debating clubs, served as president of the campus baseball association and secretary of … Woodrow Wilson: Life Before the Presidency …
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… three civil rights workers disappeared in Mississippi. President Johnson signed the act on July 2. On June 21, 1964, … released from jail at 10 p.m., they disappeared. When they did not report in by phone as civil rights workers in …
Although many feared the worst, none of them knew for certain that a band of white supremacists associated with the Ku Klux Klan and the Neshoba County Sheriff’s Department had murdered them on a rural roadway.
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… President after president has decided to stick it out in a poor landlocked … of September 11 drifted farther and farther away, that president after president decided to stick it out in a poor … President after president has decided to stick it out in a … Why did the United States stay in Afghanistan? …
President after president has decided to stick it out in a poor landlocked country in the middle of Asia.