NEWS & EVENTS AUGUST 23, 2007
President Nixon announced his resignation on Aug. 8, 1974, his downfall precipitated by Watergate. The National Archives' photo exhibit depicts his final days. Three years later, David Frost confronted Nixon on TV with previously unreleased White House tape transcripts.
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AMERICAN PRESIDENT
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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
Former Treasury Secretary John W. Snow joins the Miller Center this fall (PDF) as the Newman Visiting Fellow, working with GAGE and advising on issues of international and fiscal governance.
The CIA's "family jewels" documents expose agency activities including spying on reporters. PRP's tapes and transcripts look at Project Mockingbird
GAGE's "After the Bush Doctrine" conference considered future U.S. foreign policy. The New York Times' David Brooks and Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria weighed in.
PRP's Guian McKee has published "Blue Sky Boys, Professional Citizens, and Knights-in-Shining-Money" in the Journal of Planning History.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
The Miller Center and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions have announced their partnership to produce a National Discussion and Debate Series to address major issues facing the United States – its role in the world, its responsibilities to its citizens, and how it fulfills the founding principles. The first debate is scheduled for Tuesday, September 18 at the historic Rotunda at the University of Virginia.
GOP strategist and Edward W. Gillespie assumes a new role as White House counselor this summer. Gillespie, who is stepping down from the chairmanship of the Virginia Republican Party, discussed the 2006 midterm elections in a Miller Center Forum in January.
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POLICY PROGRAMS
