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Archive: June 2021 (2 Posts)

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Kluge Center Co-Sponsors Examination of American Institutions with Pillars of Democracy Series

Posted by: John Haskell

For decades America’s civic and governmental institutions have lost the trust of the people, and sometimes even come under direct attack. Commentators offer various explanations for what has happened. Many point to a loss of faith in authority figures beginning with the Vietnam War and the corruption of Watergate. A movement in the 1960s and …

Posted in: Culture & Society, General News, Government, Media & Communications, Politics

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Kissinger Chairs Reflect on the 20th Anniversary of the Chair’s Establishment

Posted by: John Haskell

Introduction from the Director of the Kluge Center Around the turn of the century, then-Librarian of Congress James Billington secured a generous gift to endow the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations, concurrent with the opening of the Kluge Center. Many of Dr. Kissinger’s friends and colleagues, as well as foundations, …

Posted in: Culture & Society, Foreign Policy, General News, Government, United States