Timeline of Brookings Institution
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| 1916 | "In 1916, Robert S. Brookings worked with other government reformers to create the first private organization devoted to the fact-based study of national public policy issues. The new Institute for Government Research became the chief advocate for effective and efficient public service and sought to bring science to the study of government."[1] | |
| 1921 | "Brookings economists played a large role in crafting the 1921 legislation that created the first U.S. Bureau of the Budget. President Warren G. Harding called the bureau, which planned the government’s financial outlays, “the greatest reform in governmental practices since the beginning of the republic.”[1] | |
| 1922 | "Brookings created two sister organizations: the Institute of Economics in 1922 and a graduate school in 1924"[1] | |
| 1924 | "Brookings created two sister organizations: the Institute of Economics in 1922 and a graduate school in 1924"[1] | |
| 1927 | "Brookings created two sister organizations: the Institute of Economics in 1922 and a graduate school in 1924. In 1927, the institutes and the school merged to form the present-day Brookings Institution, with the mission to promote, conduct and foster research “in the broad fields of economics, government administration and the political and social sciences.”"[1] | |
| 1927 | Harold Moulton (1927 – 1952)[1] | |
| 1948 | "In 1948, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-MI), praised Brookings for a report that would become “the Congressional ‘work-sheet’ in respect to this complex and critical problem.”"[1] | |
| 1952 | Robert Calkins.[1] | |
| 1960 | "Nearly a year before the 1960 election, Brookings governmental studies expert Laurin Henry published Presidential Transitions, designed to help the winning candidate—John F. Kennedy or Richard M. Nixon—launch his administration smoothly. The book was followed by a series of confidential issues papers prepared by Brookings experts."[1] | |
| 1966 | "On September 29, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson helped mark Brookings’s fiftieth anniversary with an address on public service and the importance of America’s cities."[1] | |
| 1967 | Kermit Gordon.[1] | |
| 1976 | Gilbert Y. Steiner.[1] | |
| 1977 | Bruce MacLaury.[1] | |
| Early 1980s | "Joseph Pechman, director of the Economic Studies program at Brookings, pushed hard for comprehensive reform of the U.S. tax code in the early 1980s. His research led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986—a major bill that had a profound impact on the U.S. economy."[1] | |
| 1986 | "Joseph Pechman, director of the Economic Studies program at Brookings, pushed hard for comprehensive reform of the U.S. tax code in the early 1980s. His research led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986—a major bill that had a profound impact on the U.S. economy."[1] | |
| 1995 | Michael Armacost.[1] | |
| 2002 | Strobe Talbott.[1] | |
| 2017 | John R. Allen.[1] |
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