presidential history

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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. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  Can Bill Weld unseat Trump? Let’s look at the history of challenges to incumbent presidents.

  Unseating a president from his own party isn’t easy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  4/26/19
  

  Vice presidential chances: How history bodes for Biden

  Joe Biden has a political imperative as he embarks on his 2020 presidential bid — to be more like Ronald Reagan circa 1980 and less like Jeb Bush in 2016.

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  4/25/19
  

  Why presidential libraries are controversial

  Barack Obama’s is dividing opinions, as others have before.

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• SOURCE: Washigton Post
  4/25/19
  

  Biden is leading the polls. But his other presidential bids were disasters.

  Here’s what went wrong for Biden in 1987 and 2007.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/19/19
  

  The public, not Robert Mueller, will determine Donald Trump’s fate

  by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  Will Trump be Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/23/19
  

  Is Obstruction an Impeachable Offense? History Says Yes

  by Adam Liptak

  Constitutional scholars say offenses involving the lawless use of official power threatening the constitutional order are what the framers thought could justify removal from office.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/19
  

  ‘The President himself may be guilty’: Why pardons were hotly debated by the Founding Fathers

  The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: Abuse of presidential power.

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• 4/21/19
  

  Presidential Personality and Politics

  by Jerome Braun

  A review of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis.