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Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… want to begin by asking, do you recall when you first met President Clinton? Mitchell I don’t recall. I think it was shortly after he announced his candidacy for the Presidency that he came to my office in the Capitol—I was … much held our ground at the time, notwithstanding the President’s own views. Gradually over time, the issue …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… gives you a sense of how close they were. Glenn ran for President in ’84. That was after Senator Kennedy had decided … issues that people remember that tended to weigh down the President’s popularity and trust. Remember, he didn’t exactly … the cards had been right early on in the first year of a Presidency, I think Dole probably, all things being equal, …
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| George W. Bush Project… quarter that she would be leaving campus to go work for President [George H. W.] Bush 41 on the National Security … that we’re trying to make happen were consistent with the President’s policy. Nelson So you always had a sensitivity to … about is 9/11 and the consequences of that for the Bush Presidency, for relations between the White House and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… his brother had tried to win the nomination for the Vice Presidency. So John Kennedy was a big name in the country, in … and feeling, and I think he would have been a great, great President. I think that part of it was that Bobby softened …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to Senator Muskie, who in turn was very friendly with President John Kennedy and the entire Kennedy family. I can’t recall which year, but one of those summers, President Kennedy came to Maine on a sailing vacation and … It was fairly limited. When I first went, I went as the President’s representative, but when the British and Irish …
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| Bill Clinton Project… so we can spend the afternoon talking about the Clinton Presidency. Let me reiterate: you’ve been through the drill, … on what you were doing and your relationship with the President. In a piece that you had written in 1992, which … suppose George Stephanopoulos had something to do with it. Presidents-elect always bring the members of Congress down …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Arms Limitation Talks]. I was unhappy with the treaty that President [Jimmy] Carter signed. I thought that it would get … him when he came to Washington, because he was running for President and he wanted my advice on armament and arms … this from other sources. This happened under the Carter Presidency. [Zbigniew] Brzezinski called me and said, What …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was a rundown apartment up near the State House. So I met President Kennedy there, then Senator Kennedy, and we had a … You mentioned earlier that Ted was thinking about the Presidency himself in ’72. Hyman Oh, yes. Young So Bobby’s …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… played from very early times, going back to Jimmy Carter’s Presidency, is not well known, except among the people in the … Ted Kennedy was a heavyweight member. They produced, from President Carter, the statement denouncing violence and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… John, your name keeps popping up as somebody who we think President [Dwight D.] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard … E.] Al Smith Dinner. Young Oh, yes. Warner I was the Vice President's advance man to the Al Smith dinner, and Bobby was …
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| George W. Bush Project… service.” I can say more about this if you like, but if a President decides to and empowers that particular job, and I … fun, enabling OMB to do as much as it can, protecting the President’s time, and so forth. We knew there had to be a … about this man in the Oval Office? You worked with several Presidents, right? Daniels Two. Riley But obviously a close …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… the Bush Library. We’re trying to do basic research on Presidencies. For the older ones we’re the ones who are doing … the best we can. Cheney Now, you did some work on the President and Brent’s book? McCall Yes. I was one of the … Miller Center did the Oral History Project for the Carter Presidency, with President Carter’s cooperation and all those …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Secretary [of HEW]. Then when [Richard] Nixon became President, or even a little before that, Gorham had moved … CHIP today.” It was not a nickel-and-dime plan. I was at a President’s Cabinet meeting when most of the Cabinet members …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Center. Brain I’m Chuck Brain, founder, sole employee, and president of Capitol Hill Strategies, a Washington, D.C. … done. He was very disappointed, I think, with the Bush Presidency. Anticipated George Bush being elected President, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… At the same time, with a very young and enthusiastic President [John F.] Kennedy, I saw the country moving in a … to the national media that he would not be seeking the Presidency for a second term. One day later we were on the …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… to talk about is how you come to know— Pickering Vice President, then President Bush. Riley George Bush. So I’ll … this episode? Pickering Of course you can. Riley The Vice President’s toughness was on display at this meeting, an … I knew all this was coming, to call on the Conference of Presidents and explain to them exactly what we had done and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… then all that happened to John F. [Kennedy], winning the Presidency against [Richard M.] Nixon, were things we were … and Newfoundland. And John F. Kennedy, before he was President, came there. We had photographs at home of John F. …
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| Bill Clinton Project… including the revered Father Ted Hesburgh, long-time president of Notre Dame and Lyndon Johnson’s Secretary of … that when he goes around the world now. Whether it was the Presidency or other things, I don’t think in his later …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Senate wasn’t intended to rubber stamp every person the President nominated, and he talked about his philosophy of … we were both Democrats. Even though his brother had been President, my family had supported his brother for President, and so we had, in that sense, something that was …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… had the integration of the military during this period, by President [Harry] Truman’s Executive order. The mood … recognizing the loss of confidence in institutions, in the Presidency, and in the Court that had given us Brown v. Board … was a serious security issue in going to church. Other Presidents have gone and continue to do so. His family was …