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… Project asks two experienced policy practitioners to see what actions might lie ahead. Melody Barnes was director of … places where opposing sides can find common ground? What's going to happen on domestic issues like tax reform, …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… the department, including changes to OSHA regulations, a jobs program, and hiring of women and minorities. Marshall … into it and we changed it very substantially. I don’t know what we would have done if he hadn’t told us to do it. Young … in, in terms of things that we ought to do, was the jobs program. I think you’ll recall that unemployment had …
Presidential Biographies
… era. In 1963, President Kennedy initiated planning for what became the “War on Poverty.” He took these measures … and actively prevented from obtaining good educations or jobs, victimized by criminals on the streets (and by …
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… backgrounds, priorities, and leadership styles to the job, and they have significant discretion as to where to allocate resources, what issues to focus on, and how to lead their offices. Yet I … heads want to control IGs, directing how they operate and what they review. Agency leaders often come from other parts …
Following key principles can make inspectors general more valuable
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… just to monitor it, keep him apprised, and let him know what's going on. I received a second page telling me the … "Angel," it made people fear it could now be an inside job, so the Air Force actually posted security police—the Air …
The page said, "World Trade Center has been hit by an airplane." Like everybody, my first reaction was that it must have been some terrible accident; there was no indication of the size of the plane. We got to the school and the president was shaking hands with people, the superintendent, the principal, along the inside wall of the school. He got to the end of shaking hands and Karl was the first one to get to the president and whispered in the president's ear, "The World Trade Center has been hit by an airplane."
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… Obama, offer memories and lessons from their first year. What was an early challenge the administration faced? Cary: … in state and local governments, and create private sector jobs. A critical part of the economic recovery was the …
When presidents first take office, they usually find that winning the election isn't the hard part.
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… Many acting officials are asked to perform multiple jobs at the same time, dividing their attention and … votes constitute nearly 60 percent of the total taken by what might be the most important deliberative body in the …
The Senate confirmation process must be quicker.
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… Priebus and John Kelly managed sensitive information, and what both of them knew about the allegations against Porter … They cannot, however, be given a “Special Sensitive” job, which requires a different level of clearance: Top …
Porter may have had access to America’s top secrets. Chief of Staff John Kelly has some explaining to do, writes Miller Center CEO William Antholis.
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… in working with the Congress. “It doesn’t matter what kind of majority you come in with,” he said. “You’ve got … to do. They are mission oriented. They’re not in those jobs for the money or the glory.” A curve like no other “One … reelected. He knew the districts in detail, and he knew what we needed to do to get those votes.” Miller Center …
On January 18, 2018, Miller Center presidential scholars and veteran White House practitioners came together to animate the work of our First Year Project through discussions on national security, domestic policy, management of the federal government, White House communications, and legislative affairs.
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… of the most tumultuous moments in American history. So what has been the context for the Biden presidency? Severe, … with hundreds of thousands dead and millions having lost jobs. That combines with our deepening crises of democracy, … a more traditional president—a normal president—can right what’s gone wrong in the country and bring us together. …
We take presidential "first years" seriously at the Miller Center.
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… precise explanations and apportionment of blame, here’s what we know: many European countries now have as much social … and tapping into those resources could result in new jobs for blue-collar workers. This energy revolution has the …
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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… be in charge of managing the cabinet, he explained my job responsibilities as: "No surprises. I never want to open … in the government that I didn't know about in advance." What Rahm meant is that the White House sets the policy …
New presidential administrations, particularly Republican ones, like to say that they’re going to run government more like a business. Whether this is possible or even desirable, we now have a business executive in the Oval Office who can test this proposition—and the initial reviews are mixed.
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… with two critical aspects of the government they inherit: what it can and cannot do, and what it does and does not … and 1.5 million military personnel report to their jobs serving the federal government. The claims adjuster at … As a senior staffer in the Clinton administration, my job was to “reinvent” government. In my first meeting with …
Presidential Biographies
… about how to maintain prosperity or how much to spend on what we today call "infrastructure." Protecting freedom and … provide necessary assistance to workers who had lost their jobs or to the ill or aged, who through no fault of their … and Cleveland because new farm machines had taken away job opportunities. Often these new African American urban …
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… support for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which he signed in November 2021, Republicans would … shaped by Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), voided what would have been the president’s most impactful version …
Presidential Biographies
… in office, Harding admitted to his close friends that the job was beyond him. The capable men that Harding appointed to … blond thirty years younger than the President, was given a job in Washington, D.C., so that she could be near Harding. … people and explain his policies. After becoming ill with what was at the time attributed to ptomaine (food) poisoning, …
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… to building wealth for both communities and individuals. What happened in Florida underscores both the need for, and … to build community, while focusing on the fundamentals: jobs, housing, education, opportunity. Deep and dramatic …
America has become increasingly red or blue. But Melody Barnes sees a way forward.
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… does not like politicians and makes his decisions based on what is right, not what is politically expedient. Lance admits that during his … Carter at that particular time. I knew of him through what had been in the press, where there had been speculation … and he was a good Governor of Georgia and had done a good job. Still, I voted for Jimmy Carter, I supported him, but I …
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… and filled with “a lot of people that aren’t doing their job” 3 —and tasked Elon Musk and the newly founded Department … administrative state. A Responsive Bureaucracy, but To What End? President Trump may well succeed in creating a …
Rachel Potter examines how likely Trump’s personnel cuts are to survive
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… Dream seems to serve fewer and fewer Americans—and about what can be done to secure the dream for the next generation. … both independently call on the new president to pursue what they term an “opportunity agenda.” While they do not … and mobility. He is the author of The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in …
Coming on Sept. 19: how the next president can revive confidence in the Great American Dream