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| 1976 || || || "1976. Organizing the Presidency. Brookings scholar Stephen Hess, a former White House staff member, publishes “Organizing the Presidency.” In it, he conducts an examination of how various presidents have organized their offices and staff and sheds light on how the presidency has become an institution unto itself."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1976 || || || The Brookings Institution publishes ''Asia's New Giant'', an extensive analysis by a team of US and Japanese social scientists that explains Japan's extraordinary economic performance over the previous twenty-five years.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Glosserman |first1=Brad |title=Peak Japan: The End of Great Ambitions |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=70CIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=%22in+1976+the+brookings+institution%22&source=bl&ots=DI_9W9cR9U&sig=ACfU3U2TpY6VB2jvtJdCzrBBiBRrnoiskg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-i6jG6dPlAhVZIbkGHc2xDuQQ6AEwBXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201976%20the%20brookings%20institution%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1977 || || || Bruce MacLaury.<ref name="brookings.edu"/> "Fourth President Comes to Brookings. The Board of Trustees names Bruce MacLaury the fourth president of Brookings. Before coming to Brookings, he served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/> "Fourth President Comes to Brookings. The Board of Trustees names Bruce MacLaury the fourth president of Brookings. Before coming to Brookings, he served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 1977 || || || "1977. Studies on Soviet Military Power. In 1977 and 1981, Barry Blechman and Stephen Kaplan author books on the Soviet military buildup. Blechman, then head of the defense analysis staff at Brookings, discusses how the U.S. should respond to Soviet strengthening of military forces and defense programs. Kaplan, a Brookings research associate, presents case studies on Soviet use of military power to attain political objectives outside of its borders."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1978 || || || "1978. Do More on School Desegregation. Brookings researcher Gary Orfield publishes “Must ''Must We Bus? Segregated Schools and National Policy'',” in which he argues that American schools have a legal and moral obligation to desegregatepractice {{w|desegregation busing}}. Orfield calls out school and government officials for intentionally dragging their feet through this process and asserts that more must be done to achieve the goal of desegregation than simply busing students to different schools. The book continues to be cited in academic literature."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Must We Bus? Segregated Schools and National Policy. |url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED156775 |website=eric.ed.gov |accessdate=5 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 1979 || || || "1979. American Decision-Making in Vietnam. Brookings scholar Leslie Gelb (now president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations) and then-Brookings research associate Richard Betts (later a Harvard and Columbia professor) conclude in a study of America’s role in Vietnam that while the foreign policy outcome of America’s involvement was a failure, the decision-making system worked as designed. Yale historian Gaddis Smith wrote that “If an historian were allowed but one book on the American involvement in Vietnam, this would be it.”"<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
