Tevi Troy is a best-selling presidential historian and a former senior government official. Troy has extensive White House experience, having served in several high-level positions over a five-year period, culminating in his service as Deputy Assistant and then Acting Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.
In addition to his senior-level government work and health care expertise, Troy is also a presidential historian, making him one of only a handful of historians who has both studied the White House as a historian and worked there at the highest levels. He is also the author of the best-selling book What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House. He is a frequent television and radio analyst.
In his most recent book, Fight House: Rivalries in the White House From Truman to Trump, Troy notes internecine conflicts within the executive branch are nothing new. Indeed, administrations have often needed more conflict, not less. Lyndon Johnson permitted the expression of very little dissent on Vietnam policy—with, as Troy reasonably suggests, tragic results. John Sununu and Richard Darman, chief of staff and budget director in the George H.W. Bush administration, respectively, would openly humiliate anyone who expressed a view with which they disapproved. While leaking reached new levels during the Trump administration, strategic and malicious leaking is an old White House tradition.
Join us as we discuss his most recent book in what is sure to be an informative and compelling conversation.
Tuesday April 20 , 2021
1:00 PM CENTRAL
For additional information or questions please contact
Addie Crimmins at addie@ipi.org or 512.787.8102