Obama Fires McChrystal: A Truman-MacArthur Dismissal or a Lincoln-Hooker...
General Stanley McChrystal's fate was sealed with the publication of a bombshell Rolling Stone magazine profile on Tuesday. In less than forty-eight hours after the article surfaced on the internet,...
View ArticleRebuilding the White House
Robert Klara talks about the Truman administration’s controversial rebuilding of the White House, which was in danger of collapsing when President Harry Truman and his family moved in when he took...
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May 8, 1945: Victory in Europe
Listen to some of the voices heard over WNYC 70 years ago today when Nazi Germany surrendered:British Prime Minister Winston ChurchillKing George VI President Harry S. Truman General Dwight D....
View Article50 Years Later, How Medicare Changed America
As Medicare turns 50, Yale Professor Jennifer Klein explains how the social program changed America - and why it almost didn’t happen.
View Article7.25.18 Promises, Promises
This week on Innovation Hub: Promises, promises. Author Micah Sifry explains why we thought the Internet was going to transform politics, and why it hasn't... yet. Then, former Microsoft executive...
View Article50 Years Later, How Medicare Changed America
As Medicare turns 50, Yale Professor Jennifer Klein explains how the social program changed America - and why it almost didn’t happen.
View Article7.25.15 Promises, Promises
This week on Innovation Hub: Promises, promises. Author Micah Sifry explains why we thought the Internet was going to transform politics, and why it hasn't... yet. Then, former Microsoft executive...
View Article50 Years Later, How Medicare Changed America
As Medicare turns 50, Yale Professor Jennifer Klein explains how the social program changed America - and why it almost didn’t happen.
View Article7.25.15 Promises, Promises
This week on Innovation Hub: Promises, promises. Author Micah Sifry explains why we thought the Internet was going to transform politics, and why it hasn't... yet. Then, former Microsoft executive...
View ArticleNukes
President Richard Nixon once boasted that at any moment he could pick up a telephone and - in 20 minutes - kill 60 million people. Such is the power of the US President over the nation’s nuclear...
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Former Veep Alben Barkley at the Book and Author Luncheon
The former vice president under Truman, now recently elected "junior" senator from Kentucky (he was seventy-seven), Barkley is ostensibly here to plug his memoir, That Reminds Me. However, his speech...
View ArticlePolitics with Amy Walter: The Impeachment Will be Televised
This week marked a shift in the ongoing impeachment inquiry as the first round of televised testimony began on Wednesday. Marie Yovanovitch, the well-respected former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine until...
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