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Through the Secret White House Tapes, we eavesdrop on presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon

We explore the most recent administrations through our Presidential Oral History Program

The Miller Center’s Policy Research Program brings together scholars and practitioners

We convene dozens of events fostering civil and intellectual dialogue

The Miller Center's Conference on the Presidency spawned a new project aiming to build a more responsible and effecctive executive

Faculty, staff, and Governing Council members look ahead to the Miller Center's next half century

The Miller Center's Presidential Oral History Program is chronicling the Trump 45 and Biden presidencies

The Miller Center's new effort to help build a more responsible and effective executive

Read insights from Miller Center experts on the new Miller Center Substack channel

Miller Center resources examine the history of domestic and global health care challenges

Experts offer a range of recommendations for rebuilding America's infrastructure

Watch an overview of the national security challenges facing a new president

Watch a recounting of what it might take to heal our partisan divides

David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography

Experts including Ibram X. Kendi, Larycia Hawkins, and Jason Johnson probe America's original sin of racism on this PrezFest 2019 panel

Historian Steve Gillon talks about his book on the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped debates about race and inequality in America

Compton Professor Melody Barnes examines how Americans have long struggled to strike a balance between government power, social order, and personal liberty

President Johnson called the Haggar clothing company to order some new pants, providing specific (and sometimes graphic) instructions on how they should be customized for him

14 months before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt ruminates on the growing crisis in the East

When the White House released this transcript in August 1974, it contradicted President Nixon's claims that he had not interfered with the FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in

Three days after learning of the assassinations of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother Nhu, President Kennedy dictated a memorandum giving his version of events