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The Politics of Social Policy Reform in the United States: The Clinton and the W. Bush Presidencies Reconsidered
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to examine what key reform attempts during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies reveal about the wider possibilities for social policy change in the United States. Most particularly, why were Presidents Clinton and Bush able to achieve their goals in some policy realms but so badly defeated in others? As argued, institutional variation from one policy area to another helps answer this question. On the one hand, strong institutional obstacles in the fields of Social Security and health insurance largely explain the defeat of the most ambitious social policy proposal put forward by each president. On the other hand, successful reforms occurred in a comparatively favourable institutional context. Yet, the analysis also suggests that paying close attention to the strategic ideas of political actors as they interact with existing institutions and policy legacies is necessary to fully understand the politics of social policy reform.social policy, Medicare, Social Security, welfare, institutions, United States
Correspondence Between John Young and President Clinton, May-July 1998
No full textCorrespondence between John Young and U.S. President Bill Clinton, regarding the topic of climate change and energy R&D. Includes marks and notes by Neal Lane
Memo: John B. Clinton to Russ Marane, "Meeting with Larry Houston," April 2, 1980
No full textTextual: Memo, copy; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)Memo dated April 2, 1980 from John B. Clinton, Office of Program and Policy Management, to Russ Marane, Deputy General Manager New Community Corporation, with the subject line "Meeting with Larry Houstoun." In this memo, Clinton discusses a meeting with Larry Houstoun, Director of the National Council on Development. The memo requests continued support for staff involvement with the Council. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.0
Memo: John B. Clinton to William White, "Potential NTIT Projects," May 3, 1977
No full textTextual: Memo, typescript original; 10.5” x 8” (25.4 cm x 21.6 cm)Memo from John B. Clinton, Deputy Administrator of the Office of Program Policy and Management, to William White, General Manager, with the subject line "Potential NTIT Projects" that is dated May 3, 1977. This memo and its enclosures discuss a potential redevelopment in the Bronx, New York. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.1
John Glenn and Bill Clinton photograph
No full textU.S. Senator John Glenn and President Bill Clinton chat aboard the Air Force One.
The John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts
John Gibbons Memorandum for President Clinton
No full textA weekly report memorandum for President Clinton from John H. Gibbons, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Gibbons forwards to Clinton a letter to Senator Pete Domenici by John Holdren, member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Holdren urges Domenici to reconsider the energy research and development initiatives included in the Clinton Administration's fiscal year 1999 budget request
LIMP: Frustrations in the Circulation of Queer Imagery', curated by Paul Clinton, Galerie Emanuel Layr/Curated.by, Vienna, Austria
No full text‘LIMP’ was an exhibition addressing the thorny issue of how artists can engage in sexual politics without turning sex into spectacle, a form of titillation in the gallery, or without reifying sexual acts so that one is only queer if one is taking desire to the extremes. This matter has preoccupied queer thinkers including Michel Foucault, Tori Smith (see: Lesbians Talk Queer Notions), Maggie Nelson (The Argonauts) and artists like James Richards, but never been explored in the exhibition format. ‘LIMP’ entailed extensive archival research on artworks and events that have sought to disrupt or parody the idea of non-normative sex as spectacle or transgression, from the 1960s works of Viennese Actionism, to General Idea in the 1970s, Robert Blanchon’s responses to the AIDS pandemic and contemporary artists including Richard John Jones and Liz Rosenfeld. From Foucault onwards queer thinkers have argued that bourgeois culture does not repress but encourages perverse desires, because this provides the access to the thrills of rule breaking, whilst maintaining the divisions between normal and not. Richards argues that queer art can be instrumentalized to excite an audience, whilst becoming divorced from matters of oppression. Building upon this theoretical and art historical research the exhibition also contributed to curatorial knowledge by inviting curators to examine their own reliance upon erotic effects: their appeals to sensation, scale and thrill, affect driven performances and technologies. How does one curate a show on sex that intentionally invites disappointment? Archival materials included contemporary accounts of Germaine Greer disrupting an explicit ‘action’ by artist Otto Muehl, and General Idea’s rarely exhibited Orgasm Energy Chart (1972) a parody of Wilhelm Reich and conceptual art’s ‘aesthetics of administration’ (Buchloh). A seldom shown 1995 video, from the Estate of Robert Blanchon, displayed non-sexual scenes from 1970s gay pornography, both mourning that era’s promise of sexual freedom, lost in the era of AIDS, and acknowledging new forms of intimacy that the pandemic made possible. Alongside these were works by Michael Curran, Lisa Holzer, Liz Rosenfeld and Richard John Jones
U.S. President Bill Clinton welcomes Pope John Paul II to the United States at Newark Airport
No full textPresident Clinton welcomes Pope John Paul II to the United States at Newark Airport
John Young Letter to President Clinton
No full textLetter from John Young, Co-Chair of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), to President Clinton. Young provides President Clinton with a statement of PCAST's principles on the United States Government's investment role in technology
Clinton County, New York 1942
No full textRelief shown by hachures and spot heights. "John J. Coffey, County Supt. of Highways." Includes 2 statistical tables.Grayscale;1:126,72
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