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Former White House Chiefs of Staff John Podesta and Andrew Card discussed the process of building a new administration. They talked about their experience with transitioning administrations,…

Former senior officials from Presidents George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama’s administrations joined a virtual discussion on presidential transitions. Several topics were explored, including re…

Former White House chief of staffs for President Clinton including John Podesta, Mack McLarty and Erskine Bowles talked about the former president’s leadership style and approach to public s…

Ernest Moniz, Penny Pritzker, and Tom Vilsack spoke at the 2014 Export-Import Bank conference in Washington, D.C. They spoke about about the need for opening up trade channels and selling US…

Panelists talked about the Clinton administration’s economic policies, focusing on the 1993 budget battle and the negotiations associated with it. They also focused on the lessons learned fo…

John Podesta talked about the Clinton Administration at the Distance Learning Class. This class is a joint educational project of C-SPAN, the Cable Center, University of Denver, Purdue Unive…

Panel one of the day-long America’s Future Now conference focused on the U.S. economy. Robert Bosorage made opening remarks, and Katrina Vanden Heuvel moderated. Topics included rebuilding t…

Witnesses testified about presidential pardons granted in the final days of the Clinton administration, and particularly about the pardon of financier Marc Rich. Ms. Dozoretz appeared but re…

Panelists talked about presidential powers in wartime and the impact of executive decisions on civil liberties. Among the issues they addressed were the history of the Constitutional power g…

The thirteenth hour of the 25th anniversary of viewer calls focused on the year 1992 and on the legacy of President Clinton. Mr. Podesta talked about working in the Clinton administration, d…

White House chiefs of staff talked about global trade and economic policy. Among the topics they addressed were the impact of trade policies on the U.S. economy, efforts to establish free tr…

Journalists and politicians who had just appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” spoke to reporters about the role of Karl Rove in revealing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame. Among topic…

John Podesta, founder, president, and CEO of the Center for American Progress and former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, talked about news, politics, and U.S. foreign policy. He be…

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider legal challenges to the 2002 campaign finance law on September 8. A panel of legal scholars and Federal Election Commission officials discussed the pendi…

At a forum hosted by the American Constitution Society, participants talked about the state of environmental protection law, Bush administration environmental policies, and legal challenges …

The panelists talked about the permanent campaign, including existence, manifestations, and implications. The permanent campaign refers to a governing style that relies on strategies usually…

Participants talked about the relative powers of the executive and legislative branches of government, as well as the prerogatives and privileges of each branch. Among the topics they addres…

At the ABA’s annual convention, attorneys held a mock court session. Attorneys representing terrorism suspects and attorneys representing the government argued their cases before a panel of …

Members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee talked about ending oil dependence on the Middle East through changes in federal energy policy. Mr. Stemple talked about alternat…

The group Resources for the Future hosted a forum on U.S. policymaking on global poverty and hunger. Former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and former White House Chief of Staff John Pode…