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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… about it, nothing. "Tell me about Ireland." We had our Presidency in 1990 here and his wife got sick. I had the … up. I brought it forward, in fact. I had it during our Presidency and the words "join the EMS [European Monetary …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in 1976 as the Democratic nominee and the next Democratic President of the United States, Ted Kennedy." People didn't … clearly the person that Kennedy folks looked to after the President's death. No, I don't think I did. Some of the stuff …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Ted Kennedy? Rudman I first met Ted when I was incoming president of the National Association of Attorneys General in … but I guess that’s true of all of us. Knott He had run for President in 1980, the same year you won your Senate seat. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of us were working to assert the proposition that the President had a lot of executive power to accomplish things … group. I started it with Arthur Flemming, who had served Presidents from [Franklin D.] Roosevelt on, and who had a … and I thought he would bring a lot of creativity to the Presidency. ADA [Americans for Democratic Action], which I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… beyond what you’d imagine. That was certainly true of the President [John Fitzgerald Kennedy]. It was glaringly true of … to vote on every issue, but my view of the matter is that Presidents have the right to nominate Supreme Court Justices; … that the Senate has a political obligation to support the President’s nominees. Lewis Historically, that’s not true. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a bipartisan coalition to pass it. He was working with President Bush in good faith, and I would assume there was … in stories, with it getting louder and louder. Finally the presiding officer said there would be order in the Chamber, … Subsequently, a person who was very instrumental in the President’s being elected committed a crime and the Attorney …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… so devoted to him. I’ll tell you a follow-up on it. When President [John F.] Kennedy came to office, he reappointed me … about ’60 or ’61—in Lagos, Nigeria, of all places. I was presiding over the African Regional Conference of the … Goldwater. Knott I mean, here you are up against the President’s brother, and I’m wondering if you tried to sort …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of Economic Advisers, but it’s a little removed from the President of the United States—that is as a staff member. Lee … under Kennedy, but I think very much reflecting the President’s interests, determined that—how did he put it? … with Bobby Kennedy when he was campaigning for the Presidency, for the nomination. I think that was partly …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… he served, at that time, and perhaps still does, as president of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, which had … to meet all these people, Nobel Laureates and, of course, Presidents and Governors. I remember Jimmy Carter wandering …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Smith. Nancy left first when [Michael] Dukakis ran for President, and then she came back and left again with the … For us it increased when Bill Clinton was running for President, I distinctly remember, because I was helping the … generational. Carey had more respect for the office of the Presidency than somebody who came of age post-Nixon. There’s …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… it himself. It was pretty bizarre. Heininger He was the President. Nexon Yes, that’s right. That’s why I say it was a … about doing this in the first place, said to the President, You can’t put out this big, expensive healthcare … is similar to what it was at the start of the Clinton Presidency, which suggests that there is a basis out there …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… No, that’s all right. There was not a peep from the President’s office. Some time in the spring… Heininger For a … We wanted, as a group, to get an Oval Office meeting with President [William] Clinton. By this time of course, so much …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… were already doing these standards, and Bill Clinton, as President, said that they should all do it. Frankly, Goals … Nobody can know for sure, but if we had had a Democratic President, I’m not sure he wouldn’t have taken that next … years. That should mean that in the first year of the next Presidency there should be some— Petroshius I didn’t say …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to the point when Senator [William] Bradley and Vice President [Albert] Gore ran against each other in the … have to go back to the Founding Fathers to find other Presidents who had attempted to show leadership in health … entity make a decision of who could play. The night of the President’s speech there was a panel on one of the networks …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… In 1980 I was an integral part of the Kennedy campaign for President, so there are some things about that. I was … adult in the 1960s—I was an adult when his brother became President and I was kind of a sword carrier in the 1960 … want to go out on the boat with you but you’re going to be President; we’ll have a lot of fun days together. I would …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I was dealing with Robert Kennedy’s decision to run for President, and Ted’s involvement with that. And I asked … George, how long does it take to get over being beaten for President, to move on to other things? McGovern said, Fritz, … in ’81 and ’82, he had the example of Senators who run for President and then lost the next time they ran. So he was …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Ambassador [Joseph Kennedy] said he should and told the President and the Attorney General, but I always thought … was it at all, I think the two things were separate in the President’s mind, in Ken’s mind. Ken had other reasons in his …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… meeting of the Governors had occurred when Bush was President, and they had agreed on some big-picture education … goals. What was significant was that you had a Republican President agreeing that there ought to be a way to raise the … Committee, formal votes in the House and Senate and the President’s signature. Then there was a deadline in terms of …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… very well. In 1960, when Jack Kennedy started running for President, he naturally had many ties to Harvard. A Harvard … I was at GWU, Bobby Kennedy declared his candidacy for President on March 13, 1968. So I immediately took a leave of … Sawhill, who considered it a bit, but then was offered the presidency of NYU [New York University] and figured that was …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… by one family upon the political system. There was President Kennedy; then he appointed his brother Attorney General and that was all right. The President has a right to choose whom he wants to be the … D.] Eisenhower. Haar So it already was set that the Presidents would have them. Knott Right. Haar I don’t know, …