Cohesion

One of the catalysts of the nationwide outrage around the Flint water crisis in Michigan was a memo written by Miguel Del Toral, an EPA regulations manager in Chicago. A local Flint resident contacted her regional EPA office and connected with Del Toral...

Memo being reviewed - Memo from President Ronald Reagan to Domestic Policy Council Members, 06/25/1987 (PDF) In 1987, President Ronald Reagan wrote a memo to the Domestic Policy Council to provide direction on protecting the ozone layer ahead of...

Memo Review by Anna Lipscomb, HKS MPP On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian college students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized over 50 U.S. hostages. This December 28, 1979 memo assesses the state of the Iran hostage crisis nearly two months...

Memo reviewed by Oriol Solé Borràs, HSPH Masters candidate, 2021 David Cutler, a Harvard health economist and an advisor to President Obama’s 2008 campaign sent in May 2010 a memo to Larry Summers, the Treasury Secretary at that time, arguing that the...

Memo reviewed by César Monarrez, 2021 MBA/MPA candidate, MIT Sloan and HKS The National Parks Service (NPS) memo PM 11-03 regarding disposable water bottle policies is a mildly compelling document that, despite having some noteworthy elements, loses...

Memo reviewed by Lauren Brodsky, HKS Lecturer in Public Policy Sitting slightly reclined, with a steady stream of cigarette smoke visible to the viewer, esteemed journalist Edward R. Murrow faces a television screen with a view of a Boston apartment. It...

Memo reviewed by Andreas L. Hahn, 2020 Fletcher MALD Candidate ( Memorandum From the Deputy Secretary of State (Clark) and the Under Secretary of State for Management (Kennedy) to Secretary of State Haig[1], 26 October 1981) The memo on the...

I can’t tell you what’s going to happen to his blockbuster complaint about the president’s behavior, but I can tell you that the whistle-blower’s college writing instructor would be very proud of him. As a writing instructor myself for 20 years, I look at...