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… 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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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… only person I meet is a young Democrat by the name of Phil Hayes, who later became a Congressman, by the way. So, this … came back and he said, This heavyset guy’s there. He’s of foreign extraction. I said, Well, get security. So we went …
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… proposal, there was an article in the paper that all the foreign policy people picked up on. It was a guy, a senior … in ? Knight Nationally, not in . He had a guy named Johnny Hayes who was his finance chair in Tennessee, who was a …
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… was on all fours. I know the media loves to make a lot of hay out of such questions, but my view is, of course, there … make that difference. And he’d always been interested in foreign policy, and DOD was something he had a particular … There were two main Cabinet councils? Brady Domestic and Foreign. Young And [Richard] Thornburgh was head of the …
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… Schmidt [Sr.], who was a Texan who invested the [John Hay] Whitney money when they sold the Herald Tribune . He was … told him, The only thing you have to know about foreign policy is Trieste belongs to Italy, and Ireland will … he sat me behind the desk and asked me questions, all on foreign policy and domestic policy. I gave my answers, and he …
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… last floats in President Carter's inaugural parade was a hay wagon filled with family members. He had the prerogative … I was six and seven years old, I guess. We lived in a foreigner's compound. It was definitely the bad old days, … places, but the first pseudo-vacation was after the first foreign trip. The first foreign trip actually was a …
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… 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 …
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… 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, …
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… about. He could hold his own on domestic policy, but on foreign policy he needed help, and Tony was great. So Tony … occasionally pop in on them. But I had never done a lot in foreign affairs, so I certainly didn’t have much to … all the members, it’s very hush-hush. Morrisroe The Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board? Mikva That’s it, good …
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… very often the exit, because it’s very difficult. You have foreign material down there and until you can get that …
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… and [Samuel] Tilden got beat in the House by Rutherford B. Hayes. But basically the Democrats only won the White House … but a lot of these were really important choices. On foreign policy, we made it very clear that we were not going … problem Democrats had. It’s not that we aren’t smarter on foreign policy than the other guys; people just doubt in the …
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… was a real mistake. In every case where we succeeded in foreign policy taking on an adversary, we had NATO [North … elections most of the issues are domestic, not foreign. So I thought I had a good case to make, a good …
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… 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. …
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… field in New York. He was an associate of [John Hay] Jock Whitney who owned the Herald Tribune . Richard … very close to Henry Kissinger, who was then in charge of foreign policy for Ford. That was unquestioned. Rockefeller thought, well, if Henry’s in charge of foreign policy, I should be in charge of domestic policy as …
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… 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 …
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… but my boss had been National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars before he got into Congress, was a bosom buddy … was pushing, whether it was domestic or whether it was foreign policy or military, the thing that was the top of his …