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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 …
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 African Americans, ensuring their right to vote. Hayes believes strongly in the value of education to bring …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Presidential Speeches
… of State on the subject. Respectfully submitted. JOHN HAY. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE … and Dr. Francisco V. de la Espriella minister of foreign affairs. ARANGO. BOYD. ARIAS. (TELEGRAM - …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …