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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy when he first announced that he was running for President. He came to Kansas State University to give a … very well. In the earlier years when he was running for President, I think he was really more uncertain about what he … process, and have a respect for government: the Presidency, the Congress, and the Judiciary. I used to say, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… you at all when he was considering making this run for the Presidency? Douglas I don’t have any specific recollection of … he had only gotten the job because his brother was the President. What kind of strengths and weaknesses did you see …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… responsibility of the states. Early in George H.W. Bush’s Presidency, there had been a group called NESIC, the National … districts and states meet these goals?” Once Clinton was President, work began on the bill that came to be called …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… those years, although he was dealing with a Republican President for the first four years of that period. He … previously mentioned, when the first George Bush became President, following the eight years of the [Ronald] Reagan … Bush was talking about being a “kinder and gentler” President, which meant there were opportunities in the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… because just before the summer recess, on August 3, 1996, President [William J.] Clinton invited the Democratic … Clinton said. Then Senator [Thomas] Daschle reiterated the President’s compliments and, overall, it was another … and his brother? What is the relationship between the Presidency and the Senate? How do you put a building next to …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… as I have recorded in my book Kennedy , I do know that the President was in a ticklish position for more than one … on Cuba? And the answer was no, wait until you hear the President’s speech. Young Yes. Sorensen Aside from that, I … no doubt about the fact that the JFK campaign for the Presidency was extremely hard work. Exhausting. In a sense, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in him after he made the decision to no longer run for President? Kruse I hadn’t worked here that long. At that … to count. He learned from that, just like the loss for the Presidency. Since that time, he and Senator Byrd have forged …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I first met him in the Oval Office, at a meeting that President [George Walker] Bush called, the first week he was President. He was rolling out his recommendations for No … a central part of that conversation. I was there as the President’s Senior Education Advisor, Margaret [Spellings] …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… talk about that. I do remember your brother, before he was President, went out to Texas to assure people that he … was an extraordinary project. I was kind of tired of doing Presidents. I had launched the Presidential projects and I … look at the President and everything you see is from the President’s point of view, and you sort of adopt a …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and that was when Bobby [Robert Francis Kennedy] ran for President. At the beginning of that campaign, I had thought … with Jack Kennedy’s help and was the Congressman from the President’s district. The younger group of aides, Kenny … Leader Robert Dole of Kansas, trying to run for the Presidency from the Senate, and Ted Kennedy, almost by …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… [Jr.], because Goody at the time, worked for the Vice President. Since Harold was from Tennessee, our office worked … Senator’s, who was interested in having an audience with President Clinton. The Senator said, Well, hell, we’re going … so the White House staffers were freaking out. The President was in his little hideaway office right off of the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Boston. I recognized that as being the Boston address of President and Mrs. Kennedy and I knew he was in Washington. … his advice. Knott I wonder if I could ask you about when President Kennedy was assassinated. Could you tell us where … Once in a while, I’d go over myself. This is memorable. President [Lyndon] Johnson was going to visit him so he said, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… it. We worked out of 22 Bowdoin Street (the same apartment President [John F.] Kennedy used) that fall just doing some … This is going to be an easy race because he’s the President’s brother? Souliotis No. The assumptions were it … day? Souliotis Of course. All freshmen Senators have to preside over the Senate so many hours a week. So he was in …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… then some very big non-proliferation issues involving the President and Vice President [Walter] Mondale, who made some pretty strong … follow-through as well. After he came back he met with the President, the Secretary, and the National Security Advisor. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… as kids handing out Congressional pamphlets for the President. The President’s cousins lived on our street in Milton, so there …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Affairs. We do oral histories primarily on the American Presidency, but we’ve segued now into the Legislative Branch, … a matter of fact, I was selected to make the response to President Reagan when he made the speech to the nation about … always sort of a competition to see who could defame the President’s budget the most. I mean, the budgets really …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… him and Bobby the summer before, when Bobby’s campaign for President was underway, and the Ambassador couldn’t speak at … him? Sorensen Then of course came his second try for the Presidency in 1980. I was again involved in those meetings, … the wrong thing on Meet the Press, because whatever the President’s brother said would have been interpreted around …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… adventure in so many ways, because his brother had been President just for two years and he was from Massachusetts, … of America. That was one of the early things that President [John F.] Kennedy had to deal with and I was just …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education under President [William J.] Clinton, on September 8, 2008. Why … on the stage. Heininger Right. Riley I was on the stage. I presided over the convention for some two or three hours, … party in 1960, when Jack Kennedy was running for President. My father headed up his campaign. There were …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Let me go back to a point. The fact that he followed a President—and followed a very visible Cabinet member and … Massachusetts. Everyone who knew that family went to the President, of course, went to the Attorney General, and … question. Do you think he would have made a great President? Galbraith: Oh sure, no question about that. Being …