The co-founder of POLITICO and a member of the Trump administration join William Antholis and Melody Barnes to discuss transition planning and putting priorities into motion

Transition experts discuss how effective governance begins in 'year zero'

David Marchick, New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker, former assistant to President Trump Chris Liddell, and Miller Center Practitioner Senior Fellow Katie Dunn Tenpas discuss the long-held American tradition of the peaceful transfer of power

Bad presidential transitions are becoming the norm, writes Miller Center Director William Antholis

Lessons from top advisors during the Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama administrations

Miller Center Senior Fellow Kathryn Dunn Tenpas analyzed the Trump administration's delay of the transition process

Miller Center Director William Antholis assesses Biden's first year

White House veterans and Miller Center scholars gathered in Washington, D.C. to evaluate Trump's first year

Watch an overview of the Miller Center's First Year Project

Prepared for the 2016–2017 transition, the Miller Center's evergreen guide to leading an effective first year

In anticipation of a polarizing election, William Antholis and David Marchick's 2020 report offered guidance on effective transitions during crisis

The Miller Center partnered with the Center for Presidential Transition and major presidential foundations to offer nonpartisan advice

UVA and Miller Center experts assessed the 2020–2021 transition from Trump to Biden

In the first-ever Miller Center oral history, senior staffers from the Gerald Ford administration joined a team of Miller Center scholars to discuss the exceptional nature of the 1974 transition between Nixon and Ford

Including representatives from each presidential transition after WWII, the commission codified successful transition practices and suggested improvements for foreign policy continuity in a 1986 report

After the contested 2000 election, the Miller Center assembled a national commission co-chaired by former presidents Ford and Carter. Its proposed election reforms were adopted in the Help America Vote Act.

Faced with an uncooperative James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln designed an innovative train trip during his transition period

Laurin Henry's advice helped shape presidential administrations starting with JFK

Before the New Deal, the transfer of power from one incumbent to the next was not fraught with genuine risk, writes Russell Riley, co-chair of the Miller Center's presidential oral history program

The question of what to do in Vietnam was far from answered when Lyndon Johnson suddenly became president, as conversations captured in the Miller Center's Secret White House tapes make apparent