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Oral History Interviews
… particularly during the U.S. invasion of Panama and the 1991 Gulf War. … Zelikow I’m Philip Zelikow. I’m not … For the older ones we’re the ones who are doing all the tapes for the [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt, [Harry S.] Truman, … ’76? Cheney It would have been the race in ’74. But the Watergate thing just got progressively worse and it was …
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… Kennedy's election to the position of majority whip and the 1980 Presidential campaign. … Young We are at the … Bates Right. Young I hope you’ll maybe use some of these transcripts to prompt your memory to write a few things about … Vietnam War, the civil rights battle, and then Nixon and Watergate. We had all that. It was like a TV series, 14 …
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… Jody … Powell … White House Press Secretary … Jody Powell and a group of his top aides examine the organization, … the usual arrangements concerning the transmission of the transcripts to the staff participants, which are reviewed for … since so many of the discussions become so clichéd, but Watergate. Succeeding Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon’s Vice …
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… campaigning with George H. W. Bush in the late 1970s and for the 1980 presidential nomination, Bush’s selection as … of the Republican National Committee during the Watergate days. It was clear to me in mid-October that he … can do it that way. That means, you understand, that the tapes will not be doctored, we will not doctor the tapes, but …
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… his start in politics with the College Republicans and how his early adoption of technology transformed his … a mob scene. It was really something. Riley You touch on Watergate here and a sense of betrayal. Did it cause you to … I learned something when I listened to the Lyndon Johnson tapes. Milkis We have those. Rove My view of Richard Russell …
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… on the Reagan administration's speechwriting office, and Reagan's deep involvement in the speechwriting process. … up starting, it turned out to be about a week before the Watergate break in. If I’d only known. I was working on the … was still very active, so, working with her, and taking tapes and the notes where we had left off, I brought the …
Oral History Interviews
… Young, director of the Presidential Oral History Program; and John Williams, who’s with Secretary Baker. I want to … law. The independent counsel law was an outgrowth of Watergate, but it was really an overreaction. It was driven …
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… discusses his work with Edward Kennedy on civil rights and other key issues before the Judiciary Committee. … Knott … that was my portfolio. As I said before we turned on the tape, however, my first day on the job, I believe, was … at this crisis and, for the first time probably since Watergate or something weird like that, having a sense that …
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… Hamilton Jordan joins Deputy Chief of Staff Landon Butler and congressional liaison Thomas Donilon to discuss President … time? Young Or anybody else for that matter. When the transcripts are made, they will not be shown to anybody but … last twenty years is largely a result of both Vietnam and Watergate. As a result of those two events, a feeling has …
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… during the critical first year of the Reagan presidency, and the other various posts he assumed during the remaining … bit about the ground rules and your right to edit the transcript and to put whatever stipulations that you see fit … White House during those years? I realize this is prior to Watergate. I'm sure things changed dramatically after the …
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… helping with Vaclav Havel's visit to the U.S., and President William J. Clinton's legacy. … Riley This is … was the first year of the new campaign finance laws after Watergate. I’m giving you far too much history. Riley No, … point, or whatever. After the first practice we took the tapes that we had used from the practice, and took them into …
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… H. W. Bush; Gray’s work during the Ronald Reagan years and his observations of President Bush as vice president; the … Woodward, who didn’t like how Hoffman wanted to dethrone Watergate as the operative ethical scandal standard, and he … preparation consists of forcing the candidate to watch tapes of himself, I said, “No, Condi, this is an elaborate …
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… Commission; becoming White House Counsel; the staffing and function of the Office of the White House Counsel; … I think it's important for anybody who might come to this transcript to know that, because they might want to go back … counsel, because Ben-Veniste had been on the original Watergate prosecutor's team and wanted the general counsel to …
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… Counselor to the President; Senior Advisor for Policy and Strategy … Charlottesville, VA … Participants Russell … livelihood. In 1993, you were 15 years or so into post-Watergate reforms and the law of unintended consequences. The … That's where he set up the machinery for his White House tapes, and they just ran the wires up. Riley Straight through …
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… Democratic politics; the 1992 presidential transition and confirmation of Cabinet members; the Zoë Baird … his elections. I was on his friends list. Riley We're into Watergate by the way. Paster It reminds me of a Bentsen … is scheduled to be 2008 probably, maybe 2009. Cleared transcripts. Anything with any special provisions made for …
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… branch in the period between the election in November 1980 and the early months of the Reagan administration. Serving as … Nixon had it right. He was great. I’m a fan of his—forget Watergate and all the bad stories, too. What we did about …
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… issues, NATO, China, the National Security Council, and the Middle East. … Riley This is the James Steinberg … note for the record that we talked before we went on the tape about the confidentiality of the proceedings. You’ve … were confused in the sense that, just as back in the Watergate era, people had questions about—given how …
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… Senator, Pennsylvania; CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) … Washington, D.C. … … But that was technological. I don’t know how long those tapes have been going, probably back at least to Kennedy’s … Times put on once a month at an elegant dinner at the Watergate. They invited me to be a guest at it, and their …
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… Virginia … David Kusnet comments on the 1992 campaign and speechwriting for the first two years of the Clinton … popular thing to do. The Taylor Branch book [ The Clinton Tapes ] and others go on at some length about this. He … this great line that no speechwriter was ever indicted in Watergate. [ laughter ] The short answer is no, but the long …
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… his career as a campaign strategist for over four decades, and covers his work on Reagan's 1966 and 1970 gubernatorial … shows he was supporting Nixon almost to the end on the Watergate thing. They were never close. They had a … VP didn’t believe it, and didn’t want to believe it, until tapes started dropping. You had to start believing it. There …