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… million births each year. Family Life During the Baby Boom What accounted for the rapid growth in population was that … to hire women because they expected them to quit their jobs once they married and had children. Contemporary …
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… or whatever,” he said. When he found the student job opening at “American Forum” during his third year, … favorite episodes to work on are those where the show has what he calls “big gets,” or prominent figures in politics and culture. His job gave him a unique view of political history in the making …
Long before the final cut is broadcast to millions of people around the country, episodes of the Miller Center’s popular public affairs show “American Forum” get a tuneup from University of Virginia student Alex Griffith.
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… care coverage; the deficit; Vice President Dan Quayle; job training; foster care; veteran affairs; the White House … September 2, 1999 Young We’re here to try to think about what people in the future after George Bush and his … through there, Tom— Scully You’ve done a pretty good job with the press accounts. Young Well, it’s a sifting, just …
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… ATM, or whatever. Nelson The interviews were surely, “What should we do? What do we do?” What were your thoughts as … of it. I probably felt like they were doing a pretty good job, under the circumstances. I thought at the time, because …
Who thought, on September 12th, that we would go more than 10 years without another successful attack? Nobody believed that. All Americans believed there was going to be another attack.
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… We were going to get together and retreat, and figure out what we could do, if anything, to affect the outcome. Every … were they skeptical of Clinton? Did you have a big sales job with that community? Segal I think I made it clear right …
Presidential Biographies
… perks, responsibilities, and the criticism inherent in the job and was the first presidential spouse to fully embrace … Dolley Madison who assumed, under difficult circumstances, what traditionally had been a man's responsibility. Working …
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… a human policymaker, it is harder for the lawyers to know what factors an algorithm is weighing as it formulates … branch lawyer’s perspective, it will be hard to trace what data the government’s computer scientists are training … had used AI tools to detect and target him. A difficult job becomes even harder. In addition, it may be hard for a …
National security AI systems make legal compliance harder to enforce
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… Instead, Bush had more modest aims. He would replicate what he had done as governor of Texas. In 2001,Texas’s … ranked 39th out of 50 in terms of statutory powers. Thus, what Bush had been able to accomplish in Texas was largely … always follow.” The way Bush depicted his approach to the job in his 2000 presidential campaign betrayed a relatively …
George W. Bush, as a post-Cold War president, came to office with modest aims.
Public Events
… they look at how the working world is changing—and what we can do to embrace the trends. … work itself. Where is all this dramatic change taking us? What will the nature of work be for most Americans and other …
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… What inspired you to make Statecraft? The Miller Center asked … and offer suggestions for a documentary film. What immediately caught my eye: the stellar foreign policy … staffer when President George H.W. Bush was elected. My job was to answer constituent correspondence on foreign …
Public Events
… of the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the emergence of what is now called ISIS, and the strategic mistakes of … Those vulnerabilities were quickly taken advantage of by what we now call ISIS, or the Islamic State, a ruthless … he didn’t rely on theologians. He thought he knew what what Allah wanted him to do. So in that sense he felt …
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… that does not guarantee paid leave for workers, no matter what job they do. The consequences of forcing people to …
American workers deserve pay and protections when they are ill.
Public Events
… of UVA's Curry School of Education, discuss the story and what it means for the future of public education. … often turn out not to be quite as damning as we think. So what’s the reality: Is American Public Education Doomed, or …
Presidential Biographies
… presidency. Taft was hesitant to take this challenging job, in a distant corner of the world, but Republican leaders … Additionally, political opposition was growing to what critics charged were McKinley's imperialist policies. … Nellie, surprised and overjoyed, urged Taft to take the job. The two traveled with their three children to the …
Public Events
… dangerous prejudices, who’s unfit to be president.” So what does Kristol make of the Trump presidency so far? We ask … look at the Future of American Conservatism, today we ask what impact is this administration having on the conservative …
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… to discuss their tenures and the lessons learned. What follows is a summary of key points from the discussion. … to discuss their tenures and the lessons learned. What follows is a summary of key points from the discussion, … are all important. But ultimately it is someone else's job within the communications shop to see that bigger …
On December 9, 2016, the Miller Center assembled five former speechwriters from the first years of the Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama presidencies to discuss their tenures and the lessons learned. What follows is a summary of key points from the discussion.
Public Events
… of Bill Clinton, Teddy Roosevelt’s reelection in 1904. What about 2016? Our guest in this week’s episode is Margaret … of Bill Clinton, Teddy Roosevelt’s re-election in 1904. What about 2016? Was it just an ugly aberration or did …
Presidential Biographies
… and declined to hire him. Cheney eventually landed a job in the office of Republican William Steiger of Wisconsin. … lost the 1992 election, and both Cheney and his wife took jobs as senior fellows at the American Enterprise Institute. … back to Wyoming to comply with constitutional law. What he did bring to the ticket was a wealth of experience …
Presidential Biographies
… and declined to hire him. Cheney eventually landed a job in the office of Republican William Steiger of Wisconsin. … lost the 1992 election, and both Cheney and his wife took jobs as senior fellows at the American Enterprise Institute. … back to Wyoming to comply with constitutional law. What he did bring to the ticket was a wealth of experience …
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… Cities are huge generators of wealth. But for cities to do what they do best—turn working-class people into middle-class … Urban redevelopment policy has been focused on creating jobs by inducing business relocation, but here again, the … industry could also increase local unemployment, as more job seekers migrate into the jurisdiction. The inter-local …
New York and Chicago are increasingly desirable places to live and cities like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are seeing their populations and property values stabilize after a long period of relative decline. This nascent urban resurgence should remind us that cities have always been engines of economic creativity, ingenuity, and opportunity.