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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of access to the President. He was not happy that JKS trumped him. He was so certain, so against. There were some …
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| George W. Bush Project… types and, not unlike what has happened in the [Donald J.] Trump administration. The State Department staff was worried, … Obama. I voted for Obama twice. I wouldn't vote for Donald Trump if my life depended on it--can't, couldn't. So I …
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| Bill Clinton Project… as a whole put too much faith in how policy can trump politics, as it pertained to health care, in designing … probably two naive expectations: one, that policy would trump politics; and two, that we needed to listen to those …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… will happen. Some political connection will likely trump his chances. So she took herself down to City Hall, …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… could—because it dealt with the budget, he could always trump me. Zelikow And he could trump you only because he had a reliable alliance with the … he was able to turn everything into a campaign issue and trump—and totally emasculate Skinner and that was the rubric …
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| George W. Bush Project… was their view. Our view was that Iraqi nationalism would trump Iraqi Shiism. At the end of the day Iraq would not … I said yesterday, that Iraqi nationalism would triumph and trump Iraqi Shiism, and I think that largely has been borne …
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| George W. Bush Project… won the Nobel Peace Prize. That’s why President [Donald] Trump says, “Everyone says this is the biggest deal of all.” … that story about K. T. [Kathleen Troia] McFarland giving Trump this magazine story that had been debunked already …
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| Bill Clinton Project… educators about whether somebody is credible—you can’t trump it with anything else. That’s the only way you can …
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| Bill Clinton Project… for the rest of my life. Sometimes those personal feelings trump even policy differences or anything else, but those …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Took over and he was obviously quite correct. So it was trumped on what would have been my stronger grounds, the …
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| Bill Clinton Project… it much because at the end of the day, we had the ultimate trump card to play, and ultimately people knew it, because I …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Were they good at what they did? Were they easy to trump, in a sense, because you guys were more used to dealing …
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| George W. Bush Project… it. Then John was making immigration--sort of like Donald Trump then--a big issue. I wasn't really on board with that. … numbers and dimensions. It was sort of like the [Ted] Cruz-Trump thing on delegates. Look at rule 51 and carve out your …
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| Bill Clinton Project… then we couldn’t move towards the Vietnamese and we got trumped. But there was a window there. I asked the Vietnamese …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to $30 an hour? Why don’t we pay everybody like Donald Trump? That’s not what we’re trying to do; this is at the …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… No, it was partly that and partly the idea that ideology trumped party, that there were a lot of squishy Republicans. …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… had a particular purpose and a particularly good reason to trump that particular problem. Back in 1987-88, I wasn’t …