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… TO: The President-Elect FROM: Peter Wehner SUBJECT: Opportunity … are having a harder time moving out of poverty than they did a generation ago. There is clearly a cognitive dissonance between where we are and how we like to think of ourselves—as the land of opportunity. …
The need is urgent, the time and political circumstances are right, and the nation is longing for uplift, for a positive agenda, for a way forward. You can provide it.
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… but instead by the Democrats. To the extent that the new president will be able to get any big-picture agenda item … with it the potential to deal a debilitating blow to the president’s party. Hillary Clinton may have a hard time …
As we look beyond the 2016 election season, there seem to be three prospects for the partisan makeup of the federal government next year.
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… and Turkey, and former National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, offered his thoughts on President … press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also assessed the president's performance during the NATO meeting that preceded …
On Wednesday, July 18, Miller Center Senior Fellow Eric Edelman, a 30-year veteran diplomat, former ambassador to Finland and Turkey, and former National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, offered his thoughts on President Trump's controversial press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also assessed the president's performance during the NATO meeting that preceded it and the ongoing course of U.S. diplomacy.
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… Norton, 2001), pp.xvii-xxiv.] Before and after becoming president, Kennedy had made use of a recording device called … for dictating letters or notes. In the summer of 1962 he asked Secret Service Agent Robert Bouck to conceal …
Presidential Biographies
… bring the United States out of the Great Depression. The President, however, certainly did not ignore America's foreign policy as he crafted the New Deal. Roosevelt, at heart, believed the …
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… Abraham Lincoln experienced a unique initial year in the presidency. No other incoming president has faced a comparable challenge to the stability … Abraham Lincoln experienced a unique initial year in the presidency. No other incoming president has faced a comparable challenge to the stability …
Abraham Lincoln experienced a unique initial year in the presidency. No other incoming president has faced a comparable challenge to the stability of the country.
Presidential Speeches
… President Cleveland sends a message to Congress regarding the … annexation treaty, signed just prior to his inauguration. He takes the advice of a special commissioner who reports … of fact of the most vital importance. The message of the President accompanying the treaty declared that "the …
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… international economic trial facing the new American president may well be reducing this danger, and preparing to … President Donald Trump’s critical attitude toward … The Obama administration found in its first year in office how seriously the crisis it inherited impinged on all other …
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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… Secret White House recordings as President Johnson faces an America rocked by the April 4 … On the night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, President Johnson recorded only one telephone conversation, … Atlanta Mayor Ivan E. Allen Jr. The mayor reported that he had been with Coretta Scott King when she received the …
Secret White House recordings as President Johnson faces an America rocked by the April 4 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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… Eight presidents confronted a major domestic financial crisis in … of their administrations—a sobering reminder that a new president can either harness the power of the nation’s … of a financial crisis is material Almost one in five U.S. presidents confronted a major domestic financial crisis in …
Eight presidents confronted a major domestic financial crisis in the first year of their administrations—a sobering reminder that a new president can either harness the power of the nation’s economy, or be run over by it.
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… the American space program, through the lens of the presidency … The modern US space program began in earnest during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower—and has continued throughout … 11 administrations. Here's a brief look back at each president’s quest to explore our universe. …
A journey through the American space program, through the lens of the presidency
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… of 1968, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara briefed the president on the crash of an American B-52 carrying four … with nuclear technology, there's no danger from this. President Johnson: Good. [ Recording and annotated transcript … Zone with the intent of assassinating South Korean President Park Chung-hee. President Johnson and Defense …
Listen to key recordings from the first month of an eventful year.
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… Miller Center's First Year Project . As the first American president to wrest power from an opposing party, Thomas … 13, 1789 Americans celebrate Jefferson’s election to the presidency in 1801 for setting the great precedent of the … surrender power to a despised opponent. Although Jefferson did win the presidency, the electoral crisis of 1801 informed …
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… The following is excerpted from Chapter 6 of The Living Presidency , by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, Copyright © 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved … have gone on a military acquisition spree, securing for presidents the authority to wage war where and how they …
Modern notions of the power to declare war and of the commander in chief would astonish and dismay the Founders.
Presidential Speeches
… of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives us, trusting that in His own good time and wise way … the Indians, and a large amount of property was destroyed. How this outbreak was induced is not definitely known, and … the differences between the people of the two sections. I did so in language which I can not improve, and which, …
Presidential Biographies
… of slavery had heated the nation to the boiling point. How were the political parties going to maintain unity in the … Abraham Lincoln's defeat in the race for the U.S. Senate, he spent the next sixteen months speaking and traveling all …
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… Modern American presidents wield a vast array of constitutional powers, … is excerpted from the introduction to The Living Presidency , by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, Copyright … April 30, 1970. Photo: National Archives . Modern American presidents wield a vast array of constitutional powers, …
Modern American presidents wield a vast array of constitutional powers, making their office one of the most powerful on earth.
Presidential Speeches
… well be discerned by the Executive of the United States how such visit and inquiry could be made without detention on … required to assume the same ground in a remonstrance which he felt it to be his duty to present to Mr. Guizot, and … its failure other more pressing matters, and the Executive did not regard it as proper to waive all the advantages of an …
Presidential Speeches
… President Bush addresses the nation on the War on Terror, and … The west side of the Pentagon looks almost as it did on September the 10th. And as children finish school and … and from hundreds of others, we are learning more about how the terrorists plan and operate; information crucial in …
Presidential Speeches
… President Harrison sends his first annual message to … that which speaks in these annual communications of the President to Congress. Good will and cordiality have … progress and prosperity for the great country over which he is called to rule. The present state of affairs in respect …