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| George W. Bush Project… Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs … Deputy Under Secretary for Soviet and East European Affairs at the time that the Soviet Union was coming … see you alone, actually, without anybody from legislative affairs minding me, and frankly without anybody on your staff …
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| Bill Clinton Project… about running for office, but very serious about public affairs. It wasn't something that was easy to do, and as you … Russian and Russian area studies, international more than domestic, what happened to me is I was also tempered by the … meetings, with the staff person from Congressional Affairs. Somebody said--I think it was Jane--if they had to …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… the Treasury, OMB [Office of Management and Budget], the Domestic Policy Staff, the Cabinet, and Congress. You might … be no “Special Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs” in the White House. Schultze I don’t know whether I …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… worried about the way détente was going? You could see the domestic base of détente eroding around you in 1974 and ’75, … particular decision? Scowcroft That was the triumph of domestic politics over foreign policy. Zelikow How did it … or how you saw the President relating foreign policy and domestic politics? Scowcroft I didn’t have close and …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… people in the office, sometimes several, were calling domestic policy and CL and HEW or whatever and saying, Where … on the earlier point, one of the lasting criticisms of [Woodrow] Wilson has always been that he did see the future, he looked …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… policy writing or be called on to do the heavy duty domestic policy stuff, and some might be considered more … If it was a speech that dealt with a number of issues, domestic and foreign, for example, and legislative, you would … intelligent editing. I once was on a talk show—a public affairs one, not an entertainment one—with a fellow …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… and concern yourself only with your private, little affairs when we have the biggest economic negotiation on the … We had to move toward a trade reform package highlighting domestic improvements, and make some alignments of domestic … pressure to reduce the President’s reaction time to public affairs, so we made sure that the President had his copy from …
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| George W. Bush Project… did you develop an interest in politics? History? Foreign affairs? Then how did you get to William & Mary? Gates I grew … in seeing that; there are no two ways about it. But on the domestic side, the Agency was on top from the very beginning, … of all of them. The smartest Presidents—Carter, [Woodrow] Wilson, [William] Clinton—have generally not been …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… This group included the Public Liaison staff, the Domestic Policy staff, the Congressional Liaison staff, the … Liaison, National Security Council or Domestic Policy staff, OMB, the Chief Economist, the Media …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… with Martin Anderson? Pinkerton I worked for him in the domestic policy office in ’81 and ’82. He was sort of my … I sort of made the jump to Atwater. I was in the political affairs office ’82-’83, where again, we had a lot of dealings …
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| George W. Bush Project… States,” barely even raises your eyebrow. But in the domestic political context of the Commission’s work and the … the title that was given to the No. 2 man at State in the [Woodrow] Wilson administration. Then it subsided. The No. 2 man became …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… century except [Franklin] Roosevelt’s first term—was a domestic agenda to put into place legislation that dealt with … that was influencing energy policy. A whole host of domestic issues that he understood were timely—perhaps in … Sununu Yes. Hargrove Primarily foreign policy, less domestic. Sununu No, he articulated domestic themes too. We …