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… Robert D. Johnston … During the Hayes administration, the United States had few problems with foreign governments and little inclination to become an …
Presidential Biographies
… on March 5—since March 4 was a Sunday—Rutherford B. Hayes’s inaugural address tried to calm the nation and make … the gold standard. As for the possibility of disputes with foreign powers, he embraced arbitration as Grant had with …
Presidential Biographies
… from the traditional isolationist stance of the nation's foreign policy. Sugar producers in the lower South viewed the … U.S. commerce, McKinley authorized Secretary of State John Hay to issue an "Open Door" note on China. This circular …
Presidential Biographies
… the country since the mid-1800s, acting aggressively in foreign affairs, often without the support or consent of … Colombian troops from landing in Panama. In 1903, the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty with Panama gave the United States …
Oral History Interviews
… so than Biden? Aron Joe Biden had two prominent interests: foreign relations and justice-related issues. Of the two, he … We just saw Kennedy work his magic again with William Haynes’s nomination to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. … grounds that there was not sufficient information about Haynes’s role, and our view was, until we had some of the …
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… Margaret Brennan is a foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News and joined its … Middle East studies with a minor in Arabic. As a Fulbright-Hays scholar, she studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in …
Presidential Speeches
… In his Inaugural Address, President Rutherford B. Hayes outlines many of his goals. He wants to reform the … standard, and use arbitration to resolve conflicts with foreign countries. He also hopes to protect the rights of …
Oral History Interviews
… the history of the Director of OMB; and the domestic and foreign policy decision making in the White House … Zelikow … and for a while the Democrats were making a little bit of hay saying he has a secret plan to cut Medicare. But at the … Which I also went to at Kennebunkport. Zelikow Another for foreign policy. Darman I did not go to one on foreign policy, …
Oral History Interviews
… speechwriting for Mansfield. Mansfield’s real interest was foreign policy. Frank Valeo was a researcher at the Library … way, it couldn’t be perceived as someone making political hay out of this. Knott: And of course Sam Ervin was such a TV …
Oral History Interviews
… on the table and walked on top of it. This was down at the Hay-Adams Hotel, across from the White House. It was a … it's a good question. I saw it happen when people took foreign trips together. People who took foreign trips together had a chance to bond in a different …
Oral History Interviews
… Leahy thought it was a great idea, and he put money in the Foreign Aid Appropriations bill for the State Department to … went to have a very quiet breakfast with Brzezinski at the Hay Adams, and a meeting with Scowcroft in this office. I …
Oral History Interviews
… this amounted to not only my testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but also answering dozens of … I said I would. I met Ronald Reagan downtown at the Hay-Adams Hotel. The meeting was scheduled to go half-an-hour …
Presidential Biographies
… America on the road to world power. McKinley's difficult foreign policy decisions, especially his policy toward China … to a brevet major on the staff of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, who became a lifelong friend and mentor. When he …
Oral History Interviews
… perfectly into President Carter’s commitment to a moral foreign policy and his strong commitment on human rights. … not only direct appropriations by Congress under the foreign aid program but also loan guarantees, other … the Irish Prime Minister ought to have a conference at the Hay-Adams Hotel with his top economic development people and …
Oral History Interviews
… taking us. Riley Do you remember on what grounds? Was it foreign policy? Snow Foreign policy was less his issue. It … North Carolina? We went down there— Smith Robin [Robert] Hayes. Snow Right, Robin Hayes. We had a great day with him. …
Oral History Interviews
… became President, he asked me to come over see him in the Hay-Adams Hotel. He offered me the ambassadorship to Moscow. … grounding in it that Clinton was somebody who did not have foreign policy experience when he became President of the … been to Russia. Vietnam was a kind of an education in foreign policy. So I just always thought, give him a break on …
Presidential Biographies
… Elihu Root took charge of the nation's foreign affairs during his four and a half years as secretary … 27, 1901, Root practiced law briefly until replacing John Hay as secretary of state in July of 1905. While America's … awarded the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize. Root stayed active in foreign affairs, accepting President Wilson's appointment to …
Presidential Biographies
… Elihu Root took charge of the nation's foreign affairs during his four and a half years as secretary … 27, 1901, Root practiced law briefly until replacing John Hay as secretary of state in July of 1905. While America's … awarded the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize. Root stayed active in foreign affairs, accepting President Wilson's appointment to …
Presidential Biographies
… Elihu Root took charge of the nation's foreign affairs during his four and a half years as secretary … 27, 1901, Root practiced law briefly until replacing John Hay as secretary of state in July of 1905. While America's … awarded the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize. Root stayed active in foreign affairs, accepting President Wilson's appointment to …
Presidential Biographies
… great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the strike. In 1883, … Gresham's modest means and insufficient knowledge of foreign policy issues made him a lackluster selection, and he …