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• Brown and Lawrence (and Goodridge).(historic rulings and how judicial decisionmaking influences social reform movements)

  - 2005-12-01

  TABLE OF CONTENTS I. WHY BROWN AND LAWRENCE WERE HARD CASES II. COURT AS VANGUARD OR LAGGARD? III. JUDICIAL STRATEGIZING--EVADING THE MARRIAGE ISSUE IV. CONSEQUENCES A. Brown's Backlash...

  Tags: Council, Democratic Party, judge, M., Massachusetts, Ohio, president, Republican, Robert, senator, South, Sullivan, Texas, The Library of Congress, U.S., violence, Virginia

• James Monroe and John Adams: an unlikely "friendship".(Biography)

  - 2005-09-22

  RECENT HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP on the political culture of the early United States has turned from analyzing ideologies and issues to examining the personalities and motivations of the first party leaders. Within a framework often termed the "republican paradigm," an incongruous mixture of conservative, deferential, communal, ...

  Tags: Boston, France, friendship, Government, president, Republic, Republican, Richard, SOFTWARE, Taxes, The Library of Congress, U.S., U.S. Congress, Virginia, Wood

• Dumas Malone

  - 2005-01-01

  Dumas Malone American historian and editor Dumas Malone (1892-1986) is known chiefly for a multi-volume, landmark biographical study of Thomas Jefferson, which garnered the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history. He also contributed widely to other literature about the third U.S. president. But he did not apply his scholarly versatility only...

  Tags: CAREER, MARKETING, president, professor, The Library of Congress, University of Virginia, Yale University

• Source material: sequestered from the court of history: the Kissinger transcripts.

  - 2004-12-01

  Upon leaving office in 1976, Henry Kissinger donated the records of his telephone diplomacy with foreign leaders to the Library of Congress as his private property under restrictive terms that sealed them until after his death. Against claims that the materials were public documents or Nixon historical materials. Kissinger fought...

  Tags: Administrator, agency, agreement, Government, JEFFREY, MARKETING, phone, president, The Library of Congress, transcript, U.S. Department of State, U.S. General Services Administration, White House

• Bush likens Blair to Winston Churchill

  - 2004-02-04

  WASHINGTON AFP ? US President George W. Bush praised embattled British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his closest Iraq war ally, likening him to his World War II predecessor, Winston Churchill. "In his determination to do the right thing and not the easy thing, I see the spirit of Churchill...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bush, leader, Leadership, president, The Library of Congress

• Obituaries: Cloyd Dake Gull

  - 2003-06-01

  Cloyd Dake Gull, ASIST president in 1960, passed away in the Washington area on May 1. Born in 1915, Gull had a long and industrious career in the information profession. H was involved with federal, government and special libraries, and he participated in the development of MEDLARS. He held numerous...

  Tags: CAREER, deputy, Government, Indiana University, president, SOFTWARE, The Library of Congress

• Abraham Lincoln's Library. (Frontline).

  - 2003-02-01

  IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR a stark neglect was righted, with the opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, state capital of Illinois. Much less brilliant stars in the American political firmament, including most of the twentieth-century occupants of the White House since Franklin Roosevelt,...

  Tags: Government, Illinois, Leadership, Lincoln, president, The Library of Congress, White House

• Dumas Malone

  - 2003-01-01

  Dumas Malone American historian and editor Dumas Malone (1892-1986) is known chiefly for a multi-volume, landmark biographical study of Thomas Jefferson, which garnered the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history. He also contributed widely to other literature about the third U.S. president. But he did not apply his scholarly versatility only...

  Tags: CAREER, MARKETING, president, professor, The Library of Congress, University of Virginia, Yale University

• THE WHITE HOUSE: President names Cecille Pulitzer as Me Member of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board.

  - 1999-08-06

  M2 PRESSWIRE-6 August 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- President Clinton names Cecille Pulitzer as Member of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:050899 The President today announced his intent to appoint Cecille ...

  Tags: board, president, The Library of Congress, White House

• When the people spoke, what did they say? the election of 1936 and the Ackerman thesis.(Bruce Ackerman)(Moments of Change: Transformation in American Constitutionalism)

  - 1999-06-01

  Bruce Ackerman in We the People: Transformations presents a controversial analysis of the Presidential election of 1936 and the surrounding constitutional controversy concerning New Deal legislation. His assertion that the populace acted to change constitutional law through the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is not supported by evidence and has...

  Tags: FDR, Government, Jones, Park, president, Republican, Robert, Roosevelt, Stone, The Library of Congress, U.S. Congress