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Biden Team Hones Strategy to Win Public Trust in Covid Vaccine

Biden’s transition could simply map out better ways to show decisions coming from the White House are subject to a fair and comprehensive process that’s based on expert advice, said Chris Lu, who served on former President Barack Obama’s transition team and was later named deputy secretary of labor. The Trump administration is often opaque about why it came to certain decisions, Lu said. “This is an administration that largely doesn’t work in process,” Lu said.

Chris Lu

'Clinton's Elections: 1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance'

Political scientist Michael Nelson discusses his new book, Clinton's Elections: 1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance, with Russell Riley, co-chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program.

Michael Nelson

'Clinton's Elections: 1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance'

Russell Riley

On the Job and on the Stump, Cabinet Officials Flout Hatch Act

Hatch Act violations also disappear once a government official resigns his or her job, according to Chris Lu, former White House Cabinet secretary for President Barack Obama.

Chris Lu

How Ronald Reagan's 1976 Convention Battle Fueled His 1980 Landslide

After leaving office as governor in 1975, Reagan developed “a radio presence in a way that really puts him in the public consciousness as a conservative voice in America,” says Russell Riley, co-chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program. By the time Reagan arrived at the RNC on August 16, 1976, he was a nationally known conservative leader who’d appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. And he trailed the sitting president by fewer than 100 delegates.

Russell Riley

Illumination, fall 2020

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