The Presidency / The First Year

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Joe Biden at one year

Presidential experts evaluate the 46th president's first year in office

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Donald Trump at one year

White House veterans and Miller Center scholars evaluate the 45th president's first 365 days

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First Year Project Introduction

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Infrastructure

Fix the funding

The importance of transportation infrastructure for American society cannot be overstated. Our highway system, ports, airports, and railroads are the arteries of the economy, moving goods, services, and workers inside cities and between states.
Antonio R. Villaraigosa
Get Smart

Infrastructure

Get smart

The infrastructure needed for today’s economy is rapidly changing with advances in information technology (IT)—infrastructure that integrates both physical and digital components will be critical to delivering the next wave of social and economic change.
Robert D. Atkinson
Dallas, Texas, highways

Infrastructure

Century of cities

The 21st century will be a century of cities. Long the engines of American innovation, cities are supplying fresh ideas and vital economic growth, and in an interconnected world, they are working collaboratively across national boundaries to deal with big issues.
Mason B. Williams
Albright College
Eisenhower

Infrastructure

Be like Ike

Nineteen months into his first term, President Dwight Eisenhower, quoting an unnamed “former college president,” advised a public audience: “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”
Peter Norton
University of Virginia