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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… nephew of the Speaker of the House and the brother of the President. If that’s not enough for you, on the other side we … obviously. I mean, his chances for the Presidency ended in 1969. There was no question; that’s the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… want to see him. I can’t even remember all of them. The President of Armenia came to town, so, “Let’s see if Kennedy … out loud, “Oh gosh, it was so great when Jack was President. Jack [John F. Kennedy] used to have parties, and … what it was like to be there when his brother was President of the United States. Young He can give you the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… my love for politics brought me to Washington. I attended President [John F.] Kennedy’s inauguration. I worked for the … received that, along with some yellow legal pads with the President’s doodles. It also included notes from the last … R-Massachusetts. The Senator, as a freshman, had to preside over the Senate. They were not allowed to speak, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Washington was governed by a commission appointed by the President of the United States. We had no mayor and no … not many, because to me, that’s just an extension of the Presidency. He’s going to do what the President wants him to … would never want to vote for anything, but it was the President’s man, that was OK. But not in the Judiciary. And …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and the Ambassador Hotel. It was a great honor to witness President Kennedy’s nomination. Heininger And you were only … and was very excited that I lived in a city that had two Presidents: John Adams and John Quincy Adams. We loved living … in 1963, where I was. As a freshman Senator, he would preside over the Senate. President Kennedy wanted the Cape …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… [James] Murray-[Robert] Wagner-[John] Dingell [Sr.] bill. President [Harry] Truman tried very hard to achieve passage … the course of the years that I was on the Hill, I had two Presidents to deal with—first Richard Nixon and then Gerald … haunted by demons—demons which ultimately destroyed his Presidency. One of the demons that I believe haunted …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… had a house on the hill, but right across the street from President [John F.] Kennedy and Jackie’s [Jacqueline Kennedy] … the time had their requests and their suggestions to the President for who should be nominated, who should be taken … ignore it. So the Supreme Court Chief Justice came and presided over a Court, and the Senate had to develop some …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that he was running because he was brother of the President. And I didn’t think that the President’s arrival in Boston would help us any, so I passed …
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| Bill Clinton Project… I chaired the Jimmy Carter campaign when he ran for President and South Carolina went for Jimmy Carter by not a … conversations with him in ’90 and ’91 about a run for the Presidency in ’92? Pika You said you were on the Executive …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… had to be done. There was a lot of interest in it. The President signed it, the administration supported it by the … Bush. It was a concern to Alexander. Remember, he had been president of the University of Tennessee. He was aware of …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… role, because it ended up being vetoed twice by the former President [George H. W.] Bush, and then it became the first significant bill signed into law under President [William J.] Clinton. It was the third bill he …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that year of his doing anything to win this state for the President. His coming to the convention and being so nice to … because I was party chair. Jerry Brown was running, the President of the United States was running, but my children … One year ago in early March, now 14 months or so ago, President [Barack] Obama, at the beginning of his …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… stationed in East Boston. He used to play handball with President Kennedy’s father, who at that time was working in a … for the House, and then for the Senate and in the early Presidency when the focus was more on local politics, Frank …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… then wife. We had a great time. We had a lot of fun. The President had just come back from his trip to Ireland, and … the President that was critical. Bobby was really the President’s watchdog. Those years passed, and then of course … politics, and that Bill had hoped would lead him to the Presidency. We went to live in London for a year. Bill had …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and they were all around the country as well. President Carter had a huge impact on the courts. A major … President. People started joking that it was the shadow Presidency. You’ve got to understand, back in those days, … Senators, and I’m sure he would have been one of the best Presidents, but I heard that. Yet many of the people who …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… ’56 Democratic Convention when he took his run at the Vice Presidency. I was as impressed as anybody was with his great … the cars. They wanted to see this young man who might be President go by. And [Richard] Nixon had very big crowds as … this, but I had heard his father talk so often about—the President’s father talk so often—about how George Mitchell …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… while Senator Kennedy was running for the nomination for President against Jimmy Carter, which confounded it … a bit to do with the Youth Act. Bob also was the first president of Achieve, Inc., which is a Governors’ and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… education policy? Spencer When I arrived, Clinton had been President since January. He basically came to the national … national politician—and Clinton took this farthest as President—wanted to look like he had a purchase on education. … I noticed that when Larry Summers, at Harvard, when his presidency was in severe trouble and it was clear that the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… while I was at Harvard. I was a freshman the year President [John F.] Kennedy was elected, and I was a senior … which was the beginning of the George Herbert Walker Bush Presidency. He had talked about a “kinder and gentler” …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and the son of Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate for President. Very few people know that young Evan Thomas is the … a really insightful little book called, Twilight of the Presidency . There is a chapter in there on the Palace Guard, … there when he should have been around there. He wasn't presiding and was not making any effort. Lyndon's …