Credible

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 reviewd by: Sasha Dierauf, MPAID, Nitin Ranjan, MPP, Lucas Schmuck, MPP, and Franklin Chen, MPP President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. meet in the White House Cabinet Room on March 18, 1966.Yoichi Okamoto/White House) The...

Memo reviewed by, Guido Torres, HKS NSF, Manual Ortiz-Senior, HKS MPA/MC, and Shivani Gupta, HKS MPA/ID The memo titled ‘Next Steps on Suicide Prevention’ serves to address the critical concern of suicides within the Department of Defense. The memo...

Memo Review by Alex Dubin, HKS MPP In this 1967 policy memo, Secretary of State Dean Rusk writes a concise and compelling memo to President Lyndon Johnson, which includes talking points for an upcoming meeting during a tense period just before the Six Day...

Memo Review by Alex Dubin, HKS MPP President Gerald Ford and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. The U.S. National Archives The Space Race began in October 1957 when the Soviets shocked the United States by launching Sputnik 1 into orbit. The U.S...

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...