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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… 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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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… 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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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… 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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| George W. Bush Project… from Texas—I forget the third. The fourth one was Wayne Hays from Ohio. A curmudgeon—Wilbur Mills. In the case of … great. We targeted these four. Three were voted out. Wayne Hays was not voted out on the floor with the whole Democratic …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… the history of the Director of OMB; and the domestic and foreign policy decision making in the White House … 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
| George W. Bush Project… taking us. Riley Do you remember on what grounds? Was it foreign policy? Snow Foreign policy was less his issue. It was the welfare state. …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… 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 … few weeks. When I started there were six members of the Foreign Relations Committee against me. I would go back and …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… party that was out of touch on economics, out of touch on foreign policy, and out of touch on values. You couldn’t win … Social Security—on all of that, he was terrific. On foreign policy, I had a funny—I didn’t see him interacting on foreign policy so much, but I did have an incident where Gore …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… 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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| Bill Clinton Project… of Staff. Health care, building the Cabinet, and some foreign policy issues are among the highlights of this … and Interior—than others, and he had a real voice on the foreign policy appointment. Young Two other questions about … at some length about the National Security Council and foreign policy. The campaign had clearly not been about …
Presidential Recordings
… -Press conference -Timing -Allen J. Ellender -Committees -Foreign policy, Armed Services New York Times -Editorial … left at 12:35 pm. The President's schedule -Wayne L. Hays -France -Officials -Hays’ previous trip to France -Cabinet meeting -Dent -Work on …
Presidential Recordings
… D. Mills -Discussion with the President and Connally -Foreign competition -Budget -Charles E. Chamberlain … -Carl B. Albert, Harley O. Staggers, Mills, Wayne L. Hays -Bill -Interstate US concerns -President's trip … -Unemployment -Relationship to Vietnam War -Economy -Foreign policy -Pentagon Papers -Effect on PRC trip -Henry A. …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… role of the NSA (daily briefings, relationship with the foreign policy team, relationship with the White House … told him he’d called the wrong man, I had no experience in foreign policy, foreign affairs, defense, or the other things that would be …
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| George W. Bush Project… 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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| Bill Clinton Project… with. These elaborate arrival ceremonies in some of these foreign countries—the President appreciated them but they … It was quite different out there. Riley Difference in foreign and domestic travel? Engskov Yes. Domestically we … you really could do almost anything on that airplane. On foreign travel—that was much more complicated just because it …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… 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
| George H. W. Bush Project… the priorities at that time for the Presidency still had foreign policy at the top. That’s how it was won. Hargrove He … the positive themes. Sununu Yes. Hargrove Primarily foreign policy, less domestic. Sununu No, he articulated … and for some reason that particular briefing had a big foreign policy component to it. Scowcroft was there. I think …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… White House speechwriting process, especially relating to foreign trips; the use of humor in speeches; the importance … there already understanding that you were going to work on foreign policy speeches? Widmer Yes and no. There were …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… 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 …