presidential history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/12/2019
  

  ‘Not above the law’: Executive privilege’s contentious history from Washington to Trump

  Trump is just the latest president to try to shield White House documents and discussions from Congress

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• SOURCE: National Review
  6/6/19
  

  Warren Harding Was a Better President Than We Think

  by David Harsanyi

  An analysis of presidential rankings and a defense of Warren G. Harding. 

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• 6/9/19
  

  What the Feud and Reconciliation between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Teaches Us About Civility

  by Mike Purdy

  The history of presidential insults cause us to reflect how we should treat one another – not only in the public square, but around the family dinner table, in our marriages, and in the workplace. 

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• 6/4/19
  

  Why 2019 Marks the Beginning of the Next Cycle of American History

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  America has had four major crisis turning points, each 74 years apart, from the time of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to today.

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• 6/2/19
  

  A Brief History of the Theory Trump and Barr Use to Resist Congressional Oversight

  by Donald J. Fraser

  Unitary executive theory from Alexander Hamilton to Donald J. Trump. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/24/2019
  

  Brenda Wineapple's new book illuminates the national debate over politics, principles and impeachment — in 1868

  by John Fabian Witt

  Brenda Wineapple’s timely story suggests, almost despite itself, that impeaching presidents and dreaming of justice are no substitutes for the work of doing justice and winning elections.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/19
  

  A tale of two Mount Vernons: How Washington’s estate separates his story from his slaves’

  Mount Vernon is also a Southern plantation where hundreds of people lived in servitude and abject poverty, and their stories deserve to be heard, too.

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• 5/26/19
  

  The Expansion of Presidential Power Since 1973

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s Imperial Presidency is now just the prelude to a far greater constitutional crisis that is possibly transforming the Presidency and destroying the separation of powers and checks and balances created by the Founding Fathers in 1787.

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• 5/21/19
  

  All the President’s Humility: What We Can Learn From Young George Washington

  by Peter Stark

  It took Washington many years to metamorphose from self-centered, impetuous young man burning with ambition to gain personal “honor” into a steady, selfless, seemingly unflappable leader.

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• 5/19/19
  

  From 37 to 79: Age and Presidential Campaigns

  by Ron Faucheux

  When Buttigieg was born, Biden had already served nine years in the U.S. Senate. When Sanders was born, Franklin Roosevelt was president.

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• 5/19/19
  

  Presidential Moral Character and Teddy Roosevelt

  by Robert N. Macomber

  A look back at the turn of The Gilded Age.

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• 5/19/19
  

  Remembering Jackie Kennedy for More than Her Fashion Sense

  by Lisa M. Burns

  She was the architect who meticulously crafted President John F. Kennedy’s lasting legacy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/16/19
  

  How will Obama be remembered? A massive new oral history project will help shape his legacy.

  Many of these oral history collections are housed in presidential libraries or academic institutions and provide biographers with richly detailed firsthand accounts from which to reconstruct Oval Office narratives.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/11/19
  

  Why We Still Care About America’s Founders

  by Rick Atkinson

  Despite their flaws, their struggle continues to speak to the nation we want to become.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/9/19
  

  A Smackdown in the Kennedy Clan Summons Up the History of Presidents and Vaccines

  Three members of the Kennedy clan published a piece on Politico declaring that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—son of Bobby Kennedy—has been “tragically wrong” in his years-long crusade against vaccines.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  4/13/19
  

  How the Presidential Memoir Evolved

  by Jill Lepore

  Jill Lepore on the "Confessions of a Presidential Candidate."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  How John and John Quincy Adams predicted the Age of Trump

  by Carol Berkin

  “The Problem of Democracy” offers a final warning to its readers who live in an era of “alternate truths” and blind devotion to charismatic leaders.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/8/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln’s $6 Million Hat

  It’s a relic of a beloved president. But did he ever wear it?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/2/19
  

  Unethical, even illegal campaign tactics are an American tradition

  by Steffen W. Schmidt

  Since the earliest years of the republic, candidates have used deceptive, underhanded and dubiously legal tactics to discredit their opponents.

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• 4/30/19
  

  6 Presidents Who Never Lost an Election

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Of America’s 44 presidents, only six have won every election they have contested.