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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… say they didn’t view it that way. To some extent, when President Bush talked about the bigotry of low expectations, … Boehner is a very conservative person. He said to the President a couple of times, These reforms are going to be expensive. You’ve got to put up the money. The President said to us in at least two of the meetings in the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… interview, and he’s in Boston, Jim Mongan. I think he’s president of Mass General Hospital. He’s a physician, and he … good stuff, and it will put you in a great spot to run for President. Heininger How much of that do you think factored …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… not. He’ll mention them: Jack said this, or Yes, but the President did this, and Jack was just in the Senate. He knows … but I called him on November 22, the anniversary of the President’s death, as I always do. He had been to—I can’t … during his career in the Senate as most— Edmund Reggie —Presidents would hope to do. Young Would hope to do. Edmund …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Much of your career has been with the Senator and Vice President Gore. Why did you end up working for Gore? Marshall … Hart predate that class? Marshall Yes. Al Gore ran for President in ’87/’88. I was the deputy campaign manager, and … him as a White House lobbyist—and also because of the Vice President’s position—I was a Senate leadership staffer also, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Not particularly. But if he’s thinking of running for President—and you’d have to ask him—if he’s thinking of … job. That was the year Senator Kennedy was running for President, so he wasn’t there all the time. My job in part … have not have gone perfectly. I think it went all right. President Clinton was interested in a number of different …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… at the time of the 1980 Presidential election. When President [Ronald] Reagan was elected, although I certainly … significant opposition. As we know now, the power of the Presidency is very important. The combination of the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… been introduced in early 1990 and ultimately was vetoed by President [George H.W.] Bush the first, and the veto was … story, conversation, I had with the Senator. It was in the President’s Room. This was actually in ’89, right after my …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… backs than you do,” having gone through it all to help the President [John F. Kennedy]. So we packed up and flew out … about that? Gargan Well, for years, especially after the President’s death, Bobby would be like the Pied Piper. It was … recollections from when he challenged Jimmy Carter for the Presidency in 1980? Gargan Not really. Not anything dramatic. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that’s right. I really did not have much to do with the President. In 1962 I was interested politically, and that’s … Teddy in a run for the Senate and how it would affect the President. Young Too many Kennedys in Washington, maybe. Or … before his first term was even over. You look at how many Presidents have come and gone during this period of time, and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Did you see any changes in him after he ran for the Presidency in 1980? Danforth No, not to say that there … particular issue, knowing you’re going to be opposing the President on it. Danforth Yes, I’ll leave that for other … objective. So how can you get something passed over the President’s veto? Well, you have to have virtually all of the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… his reputation, everybody thought he was going to be Vice President if not President. Young Yes. Fowler Because he … would think that Carter ought to willingly give up the Presidency and step aside for the entitled Kennedy. So he … around with him to introduce them to all these kings and presidents and potentates, and then he could pick his …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… sent 300 letters to Senator Kennedy’s office, to the President, to Chairman [Leonid] Brezhnev, and other … Brezhnev. N. Katz Yes. Kennedy was planning to run for President at the time, so he was treated by the Soviets as a …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in this? What did it stem from? Schneider It goes back to President [John F.] Kennedy, to the first test ban. Heininger … any ambivalence about wanting to have the power of the Presidency to do things. Heininger For the job, yes. But what …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and didn’t even know he was a candidate for the Vice Presidency. It was my first convention, and it was exciting. … time. I went there to support Frank Clement for Vice President. He was the Governor of Tennessee, and he had come …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I guess, his brother’s concern about immigrants. I mean, President [John F.] Kennedy’s book, A Nation of Immigrants, … victory with McCain, aren’t you giving McCain the Presidency? Knott Really? Olavarria Yes. Knott So that’s …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… at about the time [William J.] Clinton was running for President. O’Dowd Yes. Young Is that right, or did you … like he was going to be reelected. So we encountered President Clinton, or as he was then, Governor Clinton. … was just starting up. I then got heavily involved in President Clinton’s campaign, his first run for President, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… going on. Schneider He told me, You know, my brother the President [John F. Kennedy] started the Alliance for … when he called and told me he was running for the Presidency, and went to work for the campaign. I was the … He was interested in Latin America from his brother’s, the President’s, perspective. Heininger But at this point, he …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… forth. Almost 12 years later, when Kennedy was running for President, in the primaries, I went over from the committee … forces, and on top of that, in ’80 he decided to run for President. Life still went on. Martin But it seems like from …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… suspect that it was because, in that part of the country, President [John F.] Kennedy—and this is all speculation on my … work in many settings. It did not pass the first year. President Reagan, who had shifted positions in the Supreme …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… get it done. Young Did this figure in his thinking, that President Carter also was in principle? Boies Yes. Young And … at a very young age, under the shadow of two brothers. The Presidency is way in the distance if it’s there, and as a …