Peter j tanous biography of barack obama
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Former Secretary of Defense to Speak at 2022 Tanous Lecture
The annual Tanous Family Endowed Lecture will feature former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates in conversation with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia.
Gates became the 22nd secretary of defense in 2006 under President George W. Bush, and remained in office until 2011. He is the only secretary of defense in U.S. history to be asked to remain in office by a newly elected president. President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom Prior during his retirement ceremony.
Gates had a 26-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency, serving as director from 1991–93. He is the only career CIA officer to rise from an entry-level position to the directorship. He also served as president of Texas A&M University from 2002–06.
The lecture will be held April 25 at 5:30 p.m. in Gaston Hall (inside Healy Hall) and is open to all Georgetown faculty, staff, and students, and Georgetown University
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The End of Prosperity
Now available in paperback with a new updated chapter, this timely book by three distinguished economists delivers an urgent message: Americans risk losing their high standard of living if the pro-growth policies of the last twenty-five years are reversed by a new president.
Since the early 1980s, the United States has experienced a wave of prosperity almost unprecedented in history in terms of wealth creation, new jobs, and improved living standards for all. Under the leadership of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, Americans changed the incentive structure on taxes, inflation, and regulation, and as a result the economy roared back to life after the anti-growth, high-inflation 1970s. Now, America is moving away from these growth policies and putting its prosperity at risk.
Laffer, Moore, and Tanous provide the factual information every American needs in order to understand exactly how we achieved the prosperity many people have come to take for
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The Cocktail Napkin that Changed the World
A review of Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity , bygd Brian Domitrovic
Econoclasts is the inspiring story of how a few entrepreneurial scholars and thinkers turned economic orthodoxy on its head and brought unprecedented prosperity to America, and much of the world, for almost two generations. Arthur Laffer, Jude Wanniski, Robert Bartley, Jack Kemp, Robert Mundell, and many others—but most importantly, President Ronald Reagan—saved the world from the devastations of stagflation, runaway inflation, unemployment, and deindustrialization. The supply-siders, as they were called, were radical rebels who argued that Keynesianism was a fraud. They were regarded as mad dock, lunatics, as are all great thinkers who topple the establishment.
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