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Goode Transportation Policy Conference</a></li> <li><a href="scripps/archive/panel/detail/5869">Ambassador William C. 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Grant</a></li> <li><a href="president/hayes">Rutherford Hayes</a></li> <li><a href="president/garfield">James A. Garfield</a></li> <li><a href="president/arthur">Chester A. Arthur</a></li> <li><a href="president/cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="president/bharrison">Benjamin Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="president/cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a></li> <li><a href="president/mckinley">William McKinley</a></li> <li><a href="president/roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a></li> <li><a href="president/taft">William Taft</a></li> <li><a href="president/wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="president/harding">Warren G. 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Bush</a></li> <li><a href="president/obama">Barack Obama</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="column two"> <h1><a href="academic/presidentialrecordings">Recordings Program</a></h1> <p>Transcription and analysis of the secret White House tapes.</p> <h1><a href="academic/oralhistory">Oral Histories</a></h1> <p>Projects on the Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush administrations.</p> <h1><a href="president/speeches">Speech Archive</a></h1> <p>Extensive video, audio, and text of presidential speeches.</p> <h1><a href="president/gallery">Image Gallery</a></h1> <p>Photographs and pictures of each President and related subjects.</p> <h1><a href="scripps/archive/documents">Documents</a></h1> <p>Transcripts and presidential daily appointment schedules.</p> <h1><a href="president/policy">The Modern Presidency</a></h1> <p>What the President does, with detailed descriptions about the modern presidency.</p> </div> <div class="column one"> <h1>Welcome to the Miller Center</h1> <p>From Presidents Carter, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush.</p> <a href="academic/welcome" id="welcome-video"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403im_/http://staticmc.org/images/template/menu/play.svg" width="40" height="40" class="play" alt=""/> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="mega"> <a href="#">Scholars</a> <div class="mega-menu scholars"> <div class="column two"> <h1><a href="newsroom/scholars">Miller Center Faculty</a></h1> <h1><a href="about/endowedchairs">Endowed Chairs</a></h1> <h1>Featured Publication</h1> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801476194"><em>In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy After the Berlin Wall and 9/11</em></a>, by <a href="about/staff/leffler">Melvyn P. Leffler</a> and <a href="about/staff/legro">Jeff W. Legro</a></p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801476194"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403im_/http://2.staticmc.org/images/template/menu/111x150xinuncertaintimes.jpg.pagespeed.ic.H059h_LuWi.jpg" width="111" height="150" alt="" id="selverstone-book"/> </a> </div> <div class="column two"> <h1>Democracy & Governance Studies</h1> <ul> <li><a href="academic/dgs/fellowship">Fellowship Program</a></li> <li><a href="academic/gage">Governing America in a Global Era</a></li> <li><a href="academic/dgs/schedule">Colloquia Series</a></li> </ul> <h1><a href="academic/presidentialstudies">Presidential Studies</a></h1> <ul> <li><a href="academic/presidentialrecordings">Recordings Program</a></li> <li><a href="academic/oralhistory">Presidential Oral History Program</a></li> </ul> <h1>Endowed Conferences</h1> <ul class="compact"> <li><a href="policy/caplin/2011">Mortimer Caplin Conference on the World Economy</a></li> <li><a href="policy/transportation">David R. Goode Transportation Policy Conference</a></li> <li><a href="scripps/archive/panel/detail/5869">Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy</a></li> <li><a href="academic/berlin">William and Carol Stevenson Conference</a></li> </ul> <h1><a href="scripps/archive/mcpubs/facultypubs">Faculty Publications</a></h1> <h1><a href="scripps/archive/mcpubs/fellowspubs">Miller Center Fellows Publications</a></h1> </div> <div class="column three"> <h1>Institutional Scholarship—Edited Volumes</h1> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801476194">In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393081184">The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson (vol. 7-8)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://presidentialrecordings.rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/">Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson Digital Edition</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://www.amazon.com/dp/1603441492">Bridging the Constitutional Divide</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0815703317">Greenhouse Governance: Addressing Climate Change in America</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0700617396">The President’s Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195369416">To Lead the World: After the Bush Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0742566250">At Reagan's Side: Insiders' Recollections from Sacramento to the White House</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175403/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393062864">The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. 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