Council of Councils
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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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February 26, 2022
United States
TWE Remembers: The Bricker Amendment
In 1954, the Senate nearly passed a constitutional amendment to curtail the president’s authority to make international agreements. President Dwight D. Eisenhower avoided a major foreign policy loss …
January 5, 2012
United States
Remembering the Eisenhower Doctrine
A portrait of U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served from 1953-1961 (Courtesy Reuters). Today marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s speech enunciating what c…
November 30, 2010
Heads of State and Government
National History Center Series: Presidents and the Lure of War
DOUGLAS G. BRINKLEY: Good evening, everybody. Hello. Good evening. I'm historian Douglas Brinkley, and it's a great honor as always to be here at the council, but particularly to get to introduce to…
November 30, 2010
Heads of State and Government
Presidents and the Lure of War
Newsweek editor-at-large, Evan W. Thomas III discusses U.S. military history and the various reasons that former presidents have gone to war. This meeting is part of a series hosted with the Nationa…
April 11, 2011
Politics and Government
Campaign 2012: Hello Mitt Romney, GOP Presidential Candidate
Mitt Romney shakes hands after speaking to an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in Washington on February 11, 2011. (Larry Downing/courtesy Reuters) The United States …
