The Center for the Study of the Presidency is a non-partisan and non-profit corporation. Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower's 1969 call for programs on the American Presidency for "students old and young," its founders were Dr. R. Gordon Hoxie, an historian and Chancellor of Long Island University, who became the first President of the Center, and Arthur T. Roth, Board Vice Chair at Long Island University, who became the first Chairman of the Center's Board of Trustees. 

The Center is the foremost educational institution in the United States devoted to the study of the Presidency, government and politics. It seeks to further the understanding of the American Presidency and its related institutions and, thereby, to educate, illuminate and inspire leaders for today and tomorrow.