Carter’s willingness to tackle the politically perilous task of trying to rein in health care costs offers a template for the kind of leadership and focus needed to address the health care system’s enduring flaws in 2024.
“Some consider him to be the nation’s greatest former president,” wrote Robert A. Strong of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that focuses on presidential scholarship.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, who tirelessly championed peacekeeping and humanitarian causes after leaving the Oval Office, died on Sunday. He was 100.
"We get to hear a largely unscripted FDR. Here, he's more or less winging it with the reporters and, as a result, you can hear him in perhaps a more authentic way," said Selverstone, who also is co-chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center.
The Miller Center brought together three University faculty panelists and one moderator Friday to provide insight into the sustainability of the Trump administration's economic approach, underlying historical precedent and relevance regarding recent tariff decisions.
Scott Miller, Sidney Milkis, Margaret Foster Riley
“During the first Trump administration trade war with China, there was emphasis on negotiating trade in a lot of other sectors, and motion pictures weren’t featured prominently. And during that time the China box office began growing rapidly,” Kokas said.