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Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History quoted in Newsweek

Newsweek Originally Posted: June 14, 2017 Three months before James Hodgkinson picked up a gun and targeted Republican members of a congressional baseball team as they practiced in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, he signed a petition calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. And before the presidential election, he apparently volunteered for Bernie Sanders’s […]

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Watch: President Trump visits Saudi Arabia, CPH Director, Jeff Engel offers insight

FOX News Originally Posted: May 22, 2017 http://www.fox4news.com/good-day/256125302-video

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Political Experts Weigh In On Trump-Russia Investigation

CBS DFW Originally Posted: May 17, 2017 DALLAS (CBS11) – The turmoil in Washington with President Trump and accusations of obstruction of justice have political experts in North Texas offering their thoughts. “This has been 117 days like we’ve never seen,” said Dr. Jeffrey Engel, the Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. “We’ve […]

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After Dallas shooting, President Barack Obama will once again be consoler-in-chief

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: July 11, 2016 President Barack Obama, consoler-in-chief. The title rang through in the raw emotion he showed after the Sandy Hook shooting. Again when he cheered on a city after the Boston bombings for showing the country how to “finish the race.” Yet again when he leaned on Scripture to comfort in the wake […]

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Why President Obama is not saying “Radical Islam”

FOX 4 Political Historian Jeffrey Engel looks at President Obama’s refusal to use the term “radical Islam” and the political heat he is taking for it. He also talked about the politics of gun control in the wake of the Orlando slayings. WATCH [youtube]https://youtu.be/G7KFJwMy3b0[/youtube]