News Organizations
Former White House press secretary Mike McCurry explains how and why news organizations often cover events the way they do, especially in the case of high interest news stories. "It becomes kind of this moment of high drama in which the press has on...
Press Secretary Jobs
Former White House press secretary Mike McCurry recalls his two press secretary jobs during the Clinton administration, and says that he greatly preferred his stint as State Department spokesman over his job as White House press secretary. "It was i...
Cabinet Meetings
Former Secretary of Labor and university professor Robert Reich reveals that, while there were "relatively few" Cabinet meetings in the Clinton White House, there were a lot of what he calls "sub-cabinet meetings." "That is," Secretary Reich explain...
American Workforce, The
Former Secretary of Labor and university professor Robert Reich talks about the economic successes and failures of the 1990's. "The good news is that, throughout the 1990's...the rate of unemployment dropped and a lot of new jobs were added to the A...
Character, Trust and Leadership
Presidential advisor, political analyst and university professor David Gergen talks about what makes some presidents great leaders. One of the most important factors is the ability to inspire trust through consistent, steady adherence to core values...
Comparing Presidential Crises (Part Two)
Former White House press secretary Mike McCurry talks about the congressional response to Watergate in the 1970's and to President Clinton's sex scandal twenty-five years later. Mr. McCurry says his memory of Watergate is not the "misbehavior" of Ri...
Comparing Presidential Crises (Part One)
Former White House press secretary Mike McCurry compares the Watergate episode during the Nixon presidency to the Lewinsky episode of the Clinton presidency. In Mr. McCurry's view, there is what he calls a "magnitude difference" between the two. "Pr...
Snow Angels in the Rose Garden
Former White House press secretary Mike McCurry fondly recalls two very different events from his tenure in the Clinton administration. One took place in the White House Rose Garden following a snow storm and involved several staffers making snow an...
From Campaign to Cabinet
Former Secretary of Labor and university professor Robert Reich explains that he originally had no plans to work in Bill Clinton's cabinet after participating in the Clinton campaign. All that changed however when President Clinton appealed to him d...
World of Uncertainty: Clinton, Triumphant and Embattled
Bill Clinton rebounds from the mid-term defeat and is in a commanding position to win re-election. His greatest strength is the success of the economy and the reduction of the federal deficit. Conservatives argue that social legislation had only inc...