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Presidential Biographies
… Harlan Fiske Stone was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, on October 11, 1872. After graduating from … of Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. … and upheld many of the social legislative efforts of the New Deal. He served in that capacity until his death on April …
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… to that construct first coined by President Franklin Roosevelt in a 1933 fireside chat. Far more important to a new president is the crucial first year in the White House. … entire arc of an administration, for better or worse. The New Deal and Great Society were first year programs. Ronald …
The Miller Center’s William Antholis examines presidential candidates’ “first day” promises. Will any hold up?
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… him were formed before I met him. He was not your average new Senator when I was a kid at Georgetown, and everybody … So Goodwin brings you in. Shrum I get on a plane and the deal was I'm going to be on the plane for a week and off the …
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… governance—take center stage in American politics? In a new book, which we are still drafting, we investigate these … was rooted in the progressive presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and grew enormously in size, scope, and cost during Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, and …
Extraordinary unilateral executive power threatens democracy
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… of the imagination” was a rhetorical tool used by both the new president and movement leaders to call the country to act … his liberalism, working to finish and expand the New Deal reforms of Franklin Roosevelt, whom he deeply admired. Though both invoked the …
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… of the Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company. The deals were done in secret, and Fall was later convicted of … Fall differed significantly from President Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909), a Republican and one of our nation’s …
President Trump would be wise to remember the Teapot Dome scandal of 95 years ago
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… who was a law school classmate. I read a story in the New York Times . She became the campaign manager when there … for him to say was fine for him to be saying. What you're dealing with there is of panoramic breadth. It's like, …
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… New York and Chicago are increasingly desirable places to … declining cities do better in the last few decades. New York and Chicago are increasingly desirable places to … to move into the middle class. President Franklin Roosevelt famously partnered with New York’s Mayor Fiorello …
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.
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… prospects and agendas. Accidental presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson typically feel obliged to assure … in world affairs; other governments and peoples scrutinize new presidents to assess how this predominance will be … have priorities thrust upon them: Lincoln had to deal with secession, Franklin Roosevelt to address the Great …
The different ways in which presidents enter the White House often shape their first-year prospects and agendas.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… old distinguished Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt. I don’t like the word progressives. The … only at the polls but in the Congress. So that is a big deal and somebody should do a whole thing on that. The … Nixon debate, Russell Baker, who covered it in the New York Times said, I realize now, we’re kind of irrelevant. …
Presidential Biographies
… Truman emerged as a reliable ally of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" programs and built especially strong ties with … spending. Truman convinced the Senate leadership and the Roosevelt administration to make him head of a special Senate …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… with Congress, especially Republicans; the 1990 budget deal and Newt Gingrich; President Bush’s lackluster approach … program for the campaign, which at that point was kind of new. Not many people had done that, so I think back then … care plan probably in the summer, right after the budget deal in ’90. In November of ’90, soon as we finished the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I saw when he and Carter had their kind of cold shoulder deal. That was an experience that I’ll never forget. I saw … more than anybody else. Heininger Given your experience in dealing with that, what would you have expected Kennedy to do … twice for Democrats since [Harry] Truman, no [Franklin] Roosevelt, and that’s the truth. Once my father was Jack …
Presidential Biographies
… in 1924 and was a major supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs. From 1938 until 1943, Vinson …
Presidential Biographies
… 20, 1964. Immediately after the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover retreated to his home in Palo Alto, … Alto, Hoover launched a series of bitter attacks on the New Deal in letters and essays, condemning many of its programs as "fascistic." Roosevelt's decisions to abandon the gold standard, to …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… on the Fund for America’s Future, Willie Horton ads, “no new taxes” pledge, budget negotiations with Congress, Newt … affairs office ’82-’83, where again, we had a lot of dealings with the Bush OVP [Office of the Vice President] … he impressed a lot of people, he has definitely got this new ideas thing going and he is hard charging and he is …
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… Nearly every new president of the modern era has viewed the nation’s … Nearly every new president of the modern era has viewed the nation’s … President Obama used unilateral executive action to deal with immigration. For all of its possibilities to … has made most modern presidents decidedly uneasy. Franklin Roosevelt assiduously avoided clashes with immigration …
Nearly every new president of the modern era has viewed the nation’s immigration policies as deeply flawed. Yet few of these modern executives have been willing to make immigration reform—one of the most dangerous issues in American politics—central to their agenda. Even fewer have had a measure of success doing so.
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… Rapp, discuss the Carter administration's efforts to deal with inflation, its movement toward deregulation, and … yesterday, and there seems to be a good deal of convergence between what you’d like to talk about and … running the Council on Wage and Price Stability, with its new program of enforcing wage and price standards. And I …
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… on Dunn’s recommendation to “be an early adapter of new technologies,” and especially to “go where your audience … informed. Like his successful predecessors, from Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, Obama recognized … produced short promotional films to promote an array of New Deal legislation and to justify the expansion of …
Past presidents offer Trump lessons on communications strategy
Presidential Biographies
… but outside of, American cities. Of the nearly two million new homes built in the United States between 1945 and … power. Quite simply, labor was the key member of the "New Deal coalition" assembled by Franklin D. Roosevelt and …