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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… This includes the Downing Street Declaration, the Gerry Adams and Joseph Cahill visas, and the ceasefire. Reynolds … Bill Clinton, Jean Kennedy Smith, Nancy Soderberg, John Hume, Martin McGuinness, Martin Mansergh, Ian Paisley, and John Major. … the first man to break the ice, shall we say, with Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Féin. He started talking to him …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… work on Ireland and her role in obtaining a visa for Gerry Adams. … and wouldn’t do. Clinton promised that he would give Gerry Adams a visa, and that he would name a special envoy for … a lot of grief over the visa. Kennedy took a lot of hits, John Hume did, even I did, from people who said we were …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy discusses Gerry Adams, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Ireland. … proposal and the in-depth discussions of the [Gerry] Adams visa, are extremely important to get, because in the … thought the filming went well. You’ve got two people here, John Hume and Garret FitzGerald, who are absolutely immune to …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library … convention in 1954, and the 1958 re-election campaign, John Kennedy’s reelection campaign. All this, Steve, was … don’t think so, Steve. One thing, I don’t know if it’s in [Adam] Clymer’s book, but Ellis Mottur, whom I mentioned, he …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… staff. He discusses Mansfield’s relationship with John F. Kennedy, and his own relationship with Robert F. … Ferris: October of ’63. Knott: OK. Just before President [John F.] Kennedy was killed. Ferris: It was just a month … He was actually, I think, going out to Sun Valley to ski. Adam Clymer said I called him to get him to come. Actually, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… you have—what was your connection with Kennedy or Gerry Adams and the Irish government before that? O’Dowd My … a list of ideas, the chief of which was a visa for Gerry Adams. I felt, based on my contacts with Sinn Féin and the … Kennedy had a long history. In ’72, I think he met John Hume. That was an independent voice. John was a …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Activists; Parents of Fallen Soldier (PFC. John Hart) … A. Hart We moved up here from Austin, Texas, just before John [Hart] started kindergarten, when he was five, so he got … in November 15, 2004. He was also from Bedford. On John’s 19th birthday, he went into basic training, and he …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… tour of Boston and its environs. The Education of Henry Adams opens at his birth in a place on Hancock Avenue that … the League of Nations, and right in front of that is [John F.] Jack Kennedy. That dynastic thing again—the issue of … to. I got to know his whole staff very well: Joe Dolan, Adam Walinsky, Peter Edelman, the speechwriters. Jeff …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… his relationship with some of Kennedy’s friends, such as John Tunney and John Culver. Riegle goes on to discuss Kennedy’s close … because he had as his houseguests his very dear friend, John Tunney; and his wife, Mieke [Tunney]; and John Culver. … to be willing to meet with me. He didn't know me from Adam. He was young and I was even younger, but he took an …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a fair player. He could pick up the phone and call Gerry Adams, or sit Gerry Adams down and say, “Come on, Gerry, this is the agreement. … “Oh gosh, it was so great when Jack was President. Jack [John F. Kennedy] used to have parties, and we had these small …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to the special election that followed Senator [Henry John] Heinz’ death in the plane accident. In that special … this is all written up, widely documented, that Ira was adamant about—we were getting a pay-or-play, getting accused … out of commission. Whatever was going on with Moynihan. [John] Dingell couldn’t get a bill out of his committee …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I got more and more taken with the campaign with Jack [John F.] Kennedy and thought I’d love to be in the … White, whom I’d known quite well at law school. He knew Adam Walinsky. I asked Byron if there was any chance of my … Teddy was there, and Hart and [Jacob] Javits. Javits was adamant, We can get this. We have the votes in the committee. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Heininger It was. Marshall Because ’84 was, among others, John Kerry, Paul Simon, and Al Gore. I may be leaving someone … the same size as an old Norman Rockwell of President [John F.] Kennedy speaking at the convention. They’re framed … of grief immediately thereafter from the old Kennedy hand, Adam Walinsky, who became a friend because of legislation …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… you’d imagine. That was certainly true of the President [John Fitzgerald Kennedy]. It was glaringly true of Robert … father, I’ve heard, over all of the objections of some of John’s staff, who said he didn’t need another Kennedy in … he followed any of the advice. The speech was written by Adam Walinsky—I think he wrote the speech, but I’m not sure; …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a plea of guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. Adam Clymer, and many others, in pieces and bits, talk about … been there. Young He was there. Sorensen I believe that [John] Varick—is that his name?—Tunney was there. Young I … I had something to do with that being in the speech. Young Adam Clymer says of this gathering and the preparation of the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Ted Kennedy. Doherty I first became involved in 1952 when John Kennedy was running for the Senate. He had been the … a fellow by the name of Judge [Frank] Morrissey, who was John Kennedy’s first secretary. I had just come out of a … Over a period of time, I’d hear these stories about Adams or North Adams or Worcester and I began to get a pretty …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Republicans then. It was people like the liberal reformer, John Chafee, who was the Governor when I was in college. I … I was at Harvard. I was a freshman the year President [John F.] Kennedy was elected, and I was a senior when he … Donald Kennedy would come, or we’d get him on the phone. Adam Clymer essentially concludes that Senator Kennedy has …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and moves on to the relationships between Edward, John, and Robert Kennedy. There is discussion of the transfer … Attorney General, Edward McCormack, who was Speaker [John] McCormack’s nephew. He was the son of a guy who was … chairman of the Senate caucus. Anyway, Dick Russell and John Stennis and Bill Fulbright, which is interesting, all …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Close, so you had all these stars on the stage, and then John Williams sat at the piano and he had made up words and … details. It’s all beautifully set out in great detail in Adam Clymer’s marvelous book. Adam doesn’t do much by way of … that’s true; that’s their constituency, but as Henry Adams said, every Senator looks in a mirror every morning and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with various governments regarding memorials to President [John F.] Kennedy, and Bobby suggested that I go with him. … on Independence Avenue in the Bronx, and he took young John [Kennedy, Jr.] up there one day to show him the family … maybe Dick Goodwin, I’m not sure. Vanden Heuvel And others.Adam Walinsky and Peter Edelman probably.I mean, they were …