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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was to get everybody covered while saving money, and the President initially wanted to save, wanted actually to reduce … were meeting all these hours of the day. We met with the President and the Vice President and the Cabinet. Ira would … the Hill. Heininger What other issues were higher on the President’s priority list? Feder The budget. The early budget …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… because you’ve got a global perspective on how different Presidents have approached this. You’ve also worked with … how the White House is affected. But nevertheless, once a President decides to take on an issue like that, they usually …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… time. Senator [Estes] Kefauver, who was running for Vice President, needed people to help him, and his administrative … we're talking the early months here after he assumes the Presidency? de Haan That's exactly right. Knott There were …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was a supporter of the public plan, as I have been, as the President has been, but he either would have been able to … on a bipartisan basis. Somewhere along the line, after President [Barack] Obama took office last January of 2009, … that they would oppose everything, that they wanted President Obama to fail, and if he succeeded, it had to be …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was connected to the possibility that he might run for President in 1976, nobody knew. He certainly didn’t say so. … player in general, without having said anything about the Presidency. I had interviewed for a similar position, though …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… book with which he was very cooperative—on the making of a President. It was a [Theodore] Teddy White job but it was a … to the point where he got elected, but not anything in the Presidency. Knott Yes. Healy Then when he got shot, … that the White House—I mean, he used to call me from the President’s office and say to me, “I haven’t seen you.” Well, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to meet with various governments regarding memorials to President [John F.] Kennedy, and Bobby suggested that I go … was to Dublin, where we arrived on the anniversary of the President’s birthday, May 29. There were literally thousands … death. Young Kathleen [Kennedy]. Vanden Heuvel He was presiding over the Senate when the word came that the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Another person that I thought might be considered for the Presidency was Bill Moyers. I had lunch with Bill Moyers in … him national stature and moved him forward. After he was President, I believe the Congress had voted a medal to Robert … That was a trauma of enormous consequence to Teddy. The President’s death was of course a terrible thing, but he at …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… time? Hanan At the time, no. It was later that I met the President, and I never really knew the President. I had been … and Hamilton Jordan. When he was making the run for the Presidency, it was, Jimmy Who ? My impression is he studied …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to the House of Representatives in 1960. That was the year President [John F.] Kennedy was elected, and so of course, as President Kennedy was elected, the spotlight turned on the … best job in the United States with the exception of the Presidency, and I think that may be true. Martin I would …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to Boston and got him tickets to a Red Sox game. Afghan President [Hamid] Karzai also was in Boston speaking, the … was in town, and the Senator got him invited to meet President Karzai while he was in Boston, which speaks to … General. In that meeting we spent more time talking about President [John F.] Kennedy than anything else, which is a …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… some of them. And I was, and my family was, very much for President Truman, but of course, we didn’t think he was going … not so nice because—I guess it was in the campaign for the Presidency. I’m trying to remember who, in New York State, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… between 1989 and 1994, from the beginning of the President [George H.W.] Bush Administration, through the … he? Littlefield Well, one might say the [Ronald] Reagan Presidency, when they lost the majority in the Senate back in … former chairman of the Appropriations Committee and had presided over the appropriations of funds in ’94, was now …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of discussion on how to craft those national frameworks. President [George H. W.] Bush set up a commission also, … sounds plausible—said, "Within the first 100 days of my Presidency we'll submit a healthcare bill." He made that … American Free Trade Agreement] came up, and the Vice President's reinventing government initiative. They were …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that when it came time for the nomination speech for Vice President, we had it all set up. We had signs printed, and … committee, we found out later—inciting someone to take the President’s life. This was on a Friday morning. We flew out …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… campaign staff were holdovers from his brother’s, from the President’s administration, and Ted was really of a different … a great advisor to President [Harry] Truman and many other Presidents—Clark Clifford. He used to do some great …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… compared with what’s written about the Court or about the Presidency or about the House of Representatives. Because we were doing oral histories of the various Presidencies and he liked the way we did it, he chose us to … after tragedy. He was sitting in the chair of the Senate presiding over it when the news came that his great brother, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… what had happened was that [Ronald] Reagan had been the President for eight years, and the whole mantra there was … that we enacted during the first two years of the Clinton Presidency. There was another education act that came along …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and a Democratic Party that was utterly demoralized and a President who really wasn’t sure what to do. All the tea … but it turned out it was going to be upstairs in the President’s residence. So we went through the West Wing, … respect for the President and the awe he has for the Presidency. He wasn’t going to say, “Are you saying you’re …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… not progress. I became more and more of the opinion that President Reagan either didn’t get it or was not being well … to have to be a two-House solution and a signature by President Reagan, who was not maybe on board. I had allies on … in this two-year period of ’85 and ’86, I was asked by President Reagan to go to the Philippines to lead a …