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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… what [Lyndon] Johnson was able to pull off, you had a new President coming in with a huge mandate, and he had clearly … for the base? Heininger But the issue of giving the President a win was less of an issue in ’93 than it became in … an analogy to a similar case of not wanting to give the President a win and dealing with a base at that point, when …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… should serve three years, the Congress should elect the President, and the President should serve for an equal term … since then. These were effectively worked out between Presidents and the Senate. Young Wasn’t this a kind of … We think an exercise of judgment more independent of the President’s, in the case of Cabinet appointments… higher …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… who had been in the White House and who had also been president of the Bar Association. It also included Bob Coles, … had what they call a three-one split. Even with Republican Presidents, they got three judges and the Democrats got one. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… say that when Kevin got to be a senior, he was elected president. She was president of her senior class, Kevin was elected president of his senior class, and Bobby was elected …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedys, growing up in Massachusetts, a firm supporter of President [John F.] Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, and was … during this two-year period, leading up to his run for the Presidency. I had very little to do with the campaign. I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for his brother Robert [Kennedy], who was running for President as of the date of this meeting. He said, “We’d … down on his agenda. I think he said to himself, “Look, the Presidency is gone. I’ll be judged in history, I hope, by my …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… And, his relations with the White House for these many Presidencies. Your work with him after you left the staff, I … John Hinckley had been stalking Senator Kennedy as well as President [Jimmy] Carter, Jodie Foster, and President …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… I had a lot of private sector offers at that time. Then President Bush threw a monkey wrench in the works by asking … and that’s a really good question in the context of how a Presidency works too, because it varies depending upon how …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… became assistant to the Presidential staff secretary to President Bush in ’91, my deputy was John Gardner, deputy … and their assignments, the hands-on need within the Vice President’s office for somebody forcing the system to … Clinton, and how he is one of the most engaged Vice Presidents in history. I really think that sort of …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was also the year that [Michael] Dukakis was running for President—and the campaign was based here in Boston. I was … to work for Mario Cuomo, who I really wanted to run for President in ’92, and worked for him for about a year and a half. When he decided not to run for President, I went to work for Bill Clinton and started to go …
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| Bill Clinton Project… You were running for reelection at the same time as President Clinton was running. Did you have interactions on … about how the vote came down in the House. Do you see the Presidency learning or responding in any significant way over …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Beryl Sprinkel, decided to stay on. I got to know the Vice President through some people on his staff who knew me and … me. I’d occasionally have breakfast with him at the Vice President’s house when I was in Washington doing other … goes on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, but most Presidents don’t pay enough attention to the Fed. That’s an …
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| George W. Bush Project… a long history with the Bush family, particularly with the President’s brother, Jeb [John Ellis Bush]. We’d like you to … a lightning bolt. Why is he resigning so soon into the Presidency? A senior staff person, really? Six months in? I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… talking about what those lessons are. To a certain extent President [Barack] Obama has applied those lessons so far. … He was very involved in the welfare reform debate with President Clinton at the time. He has an interest in foreign … just how you would characterize his relationship with President Clinton. Overall, I think it was a very positive …
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| George W. Bush Project… people in the future who want to come to understand this Presidency and your experience with it as it actually was. … Force One. That’s the earliest memory I have of seeing a President on TV. But I think I really got interested in it … we read at that time. The whole book is just about what Presidents thought, what they did, and all the research is …
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| Bill Clinton Project… and then won three terms. In the middle of my third term, President [Jimmy] Carter appointed me to the court. I was … you had the opportunity to deal with a number of different Presidents. What is your assessment of both the Presidents … But his time was wrong. He inherited what was left of the Presidency after [Richard] Nixon dumped on it so, and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… by a selected number of the [Ronald] Reagan people because President Reagan was already incapacitated for interviews by … occasion in the Waldorf Astoria, out in front during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. The person who was being honored …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… of Bush is just shaped by their images of seeing him as a President? Catto He was perfectly wonderful, relaxed, … and you get a fair amount of insight from looking at a President’s first political achievement or political … and some of these other personalities from the Bush Presidency from the Ford period? Catto Yes, Cheney was …
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| Bill Clinton Project… an important role, and also the period during the Clinton Presidency. We’d like to start by going back a little bit to … with what I had gone through as a native with both President [John F.] Kennedy and, to a slightly lesser extent, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the child to survive. Here was the person who was the President of the United States, with all of the assets that … debate, until the very end, during the final windup. After President [George H.W.] Bush I vetoed it in 1992, I sort of … powerful position, was interested in running for President. No one gave him much of a chance, but he thought …