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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… views on Vietnam, health care, flirting with running for president, busing, relationship with Jimmy Carter, security … figure, I think this is especially important. Oliphant How sensitive has it been so far? Knott It’s been mixed. … was this meticulous approach to organization, and so the President was right. I remember going in with a colleague …
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… The “General” Election is a four-part blog series examining how career generals won the presidency and governed … “General” Election is a four-part blog series examining how George Washington , Zachary Taylor , Ulysses S. Grant , and Dwight Eisenhower, all career generals, won the presidency and how effective they were once in office. 1952 …
The “General” Election is a four-part blog series examining how career generals won the presidency and governed
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… among DHS, state governments, and local governments. He also briefly discusses Congress’s attempt to reform … to contribute policy papers or policy observations, and I did some of that. I wouldn’t say I was by any means at the … AG [Attorney General] or designated AG. I don’t know if he was confirmed yet. Brown Had you known him before at all? …
Presidential Biographies
… making. Kennedy had only been in office two months when he ordered the implementation of a covert CIA plan inherited … immediately. It soon became clear that despite the president's denial of US involvement in the attempted coup, … (and recurring) challenge in the region, by the end of his presidency it was Vietnam that proved at least as difficult, …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… in the early 1980s when I was mayor of San Antonio and he came here on several occasions to address conventions. On … to introduce him in a convention-type setting. We did a press conference on one of those events. I had first …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of course, went to the law school. Stephen Knott Right. He visited in March. He spoke at the law school and then spoke here. He's been very cooperative. He's done 11 interviews with us. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Clinton was in the process of coming into office, did this appear to be another moment of opportunity? Feder … that race, Wofford began to use health care as an issue. He had a line that I’m about to botch, but you can look for … the campaign. Clinton didn’t talk about health care until he did a speech late September ’92, right before the …
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… Five keywords that will help the next president face global crises … The next president will face a world in turmoil, and the first months of a new presidency can be an especially complicated moment. It is … the first-year national security record of five key presidents (Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton, Bush 41, and Bush 43). …
Five keywords that will help the next president face global crises
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… Intelligence Committee and the screen-gripped world, he spoke for more than himself. If President Trump really did secretly record his conversations with (and about) Comey, …
Why it feels like we're fast-forwarding through Watergate—and why congressional committees must subpoena any and all Trump tapes.
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… fights over policy, principle, and power—fights in which presidents and Congress jostled for advantage and the … It embraces a vision of national leadership—the strongman presidency—that operates beyond the usual democratic bounds and is ultimately a danger to democracy itself. How did this come to be? How did the threat of a strongman …
Extraordinary unilateral executive power threatens democracy
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… affecting decision about ’84; making peace with not being president; support of Dukakis. … that thing must be voluminous. Knott Oh, yes. Oliphant Did you guys get the oral diaries? Knott He has given us some … Al Gore’s personal secretary for a while while he was Vice President, but a very classic— Knott Tightlipped. Oliphant …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Chief of Staff to Edward Kennedy; President of CBS News … and before Bobby announced. We’ve talked before about how Ted was opposed to Bobby’s running for the Presidency, … thing.” So my first instinct was that Bobby’s running for President was not attractive to him at all. And then when the …
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… UVAToday] Philip Zelikow learned the art of statecraft in President George H.W. Bush’s White House. Like many around … which helped to end the Cold War during Bush’s term. He later served as a deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza … Memories of a president …
Former George H.W. Bush advisor and Miller Center scholar Philip Zelikow shares his recollections with UVA Today.
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… Incrementalism doesn’t excite activists—but it’s how health-care systems are built. … Read the full article at The Washington Post President Joe Biden is finally on a winning streak. He and … of health-care policy, however, suggests that this is how change usually happens in this area—not only in the …
Incrementalism doesn’t excite activists—but it’s how health-care systems are built.
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… all quitting at the same time? This is what happened to President John Tyler. No one really cared too much about the … it. Virginia was an important state for the Whigs, and it did not hurt to have a slave owner like Tyler to help gain …
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… aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the orders of President George W. Bush. The Miller Center’s White House … about the major policy decisions on Afghanistan and how those decisions were viewed and executed by senior … about Afghanistan. (On-going interview projects on Presidents Obama and Trump will complete the picture.) Six …
The history of American engagement in Afghanistan has taken on renewed importance with the fall of that country back to the Taliban. What decisions made by American policymakers led to this result? Was it inevitable, or were there missed opportunities that might have created the conditions for long-term success?
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… When Nixon muttered to White House aides that he was the victim of a conspiracy of Jews, intellectuals and Ivy Leaguers, “arrogant” people he said placed themselves above the law, he did so to justify arrogantly placing himself above the law. … one. When Nixon muttered to White House aides that he was the victim of a conspiracy of Jews, intellectuals, and …
When Nixon muttered to White House aides that he was the victim of a conspiracy of Jews, intellectuals and Ivy Leaguers, “arrogant” people he said placed themselves above the law, he did so to justify arrogantly placing himself above the law.
Presidential Biographies
… patented 13,500 acres in the Piedmont of central Virginia. He was one of twelve men to survey the region with Governor … the College of New Jersey, Madison studied under its new president, John Witherspoon, the second Scottish immigrant … James Madison: Life Before the Presidency …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… administrations, starting with the Carter administration. He credits members of Senator Kennedy’s staff for helping the … including getting the resources to make it possible. He outlines various forces, political, social, etc., that … We worked mostly with [Claiborne] Pell’s aides, because he was the chair. Kennedy’s visit was a courtesy visit to get …
Oral History Interviews
| Gerald Ford Project… the bureaucracy; the relative powers of Congress and the president in directing the administration of government; the … speechwriting process and messaging; the role of the vice presidency; the problems associated with the exercise of … as a collectivity rather than having them depend from the President himself in a personal fashion. I’m not arguing for …