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… Woodrow Wilson's presidency fulfilled much of the progressive reform … and banking interests, was probably the most important domestic achievement of the Wilson administration, one that … Woodrow Wilson: Domestic Affairs …
Presidential Biographies
… not to please a set of organized constituencies. Like Woodrow Wilson, he intended to act with honesty and candor, … up toxic waste sites. Energy Policy Success Carter's main domestic policy achievement involved energy policy, though he … of Energy had not predicted. Between 1980 and 1985, domestic production increased by almost 1 million barrels a …
Presidential Biographies
… explain the history of the United States and much of world affairs in the twentieth century without understanding the administration and political legacy of Woodrow Wilson, America’s 28th president. Through his leadership, he … Woodrow Wilson: Life in Brief …
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… a departure from the activism of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Coolidge's political philosophy and personal … embraced the new media of the modern culture. Coolidge's domestic legacy can generally be described as conservative. … with a two-thirds majority. The centerpiece of Coolidge's domestic agenda was his tax cutting. He championed the …
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… Republican Party than the new President in fashioning a domestic legislative agenda. No rubber stamp, however, … importance. Presidents after Harrison (Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt) strengthened … Benjamin Harrison: Domestic Affairs …
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… railroad regulation and undertook one of his greatest domestic reform efforts. The legislation, which became known … That term soon became synonymous with Roosevelt's domestic program. The Square Deal worked to balance competing … program and the practice soon became commonplace, with Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New …
Presidential Biographies
… the Union nor surrendered their rights to govern their own affairs. Indeed, he echoed Lincoln's view that 600,000 dead … presidency" system of governance was instituted, one which Woodrow Wilson referred to in the 1870s as "Congressional … Andrew Johnson: Domestic Affairs …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… break with [William H.] Taft in 1912, which allowed Woodrow Wilson to become a minority President of the United … for America. Young And there was Ted trying to talk about domestic— Vanden Heuvel It was almost unpatriotic to attack … that they could win the election if they kept the focus on domestic issues. They didn’t want to give the Republicans the …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Director of the Domestic Policy Council … his early relationship with Bush, and his time on the Domestic Policy Council in the final years of the Bush Presidency, with particular focus on Veterans Affairs, stem cells, immigration reform, the financial … me up to say, “Would you be interested in serving as the Domestic Policy Advisor to the President?” I wasn’t even …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… campaign it was not just Vietnam but it was also on the domestic front, what was happening.He made that a point— … the lesson of Theodore Roosevelt and [William] Taft and [Woodrow] Wilson in 1912. There were the very personal considerations, …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… and private practice positions. I had graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, spent a year at Harvard Law School, and …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… John Hilley: Director of Legislative Affairs; Lawrence Stein: Director of Legislative Affairs … John Hilley and Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, Lawrence Stein, recall White House relations with … him. Now I’m at Capital One as a vice president for policy affairs. Jones Could I ask a question about the career path …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… in the daytime and before C-SPAN [cable-satellite public affairs network]. So he had never spoken to a national … the literary people. Nelson Who are interested in public affairs but have chosen to live in Baltimore instead of … words in President Kennedy’s inaugural were about world affairs, not about domestic problems. They actually just had …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Margaret Spellings: Director of the Domestic Policy Council; Secretary of Education Holly … and Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education … he had a lot more to learn than in this arena. All the domestic stuff, the criminal justice, we had our own …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… in what was going on, somewhat more about international affairs than domestic matters so we talked a lot about the years of Nixon … I applied. I didn’t have any background in Latin American affairs, but I met different people at CSIS, including Fred …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… with him because I was his lead for HIV globally and domestically. Riley Right. Dybul I was doing work in Africa … from NSC [National Security Council] and Jay from the Domestic Policy Council. Riley Right. Dybul Gary was really …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… and Panama. Various other issues, such as the Bert Lance affair, Carter's relations with the press, and public … sense attractive, but was bound to be unsuccessful. On domestic policies, he had a much greater feel, but once … somewhere in the fall of 1977, just after the Bert Lance affair, which is very important in terms of the effectiveness …
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… it was a veritable coronation, presaging the frictionless affairs of the late 20th century. "Silent Cal," as Coolidge … from the Midwest and a strong progressive on the domestic front. When Borah declined the offer, the party … Secretary William G. McAdoo of California--President Wilson's son-in-law--fought Governor Alfred E. Smith of New …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… in no particular order, the Office of Political Affairs, OPL [Office of Public Liaison]. The injunction from … be in a position where you’re able to opine on all things domestic and on some things foreign, some things …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… President Reagan had been thrown off his horse down at the Wilson Ranch in and had had a period of unconsciousness. It … together and he had everybody from the librarian of the Woodrow Wilson, who has a tracheostomy, but he would come to these …