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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… by the late ’60s as a different kind of Kennedy from President [John F.] Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. Most Senators … White House: What do you think of it now that you have the Presidency? He said, with that wonderful half smile, I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… inspired in terms of political judgments by my brothers, President [John F.] Kennedy and Bob [Robert Kennedy]. I had … them. I didn’t feel that I was ready in terms of the Vice Presidency. Young The Vice Presidency wouldn’t have …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… a beautiful corner office. Of course, when you change Presidency, all the pictures and art come down for the new … Garfield? He says, Well, Pen, don’t you know he was the President who was shot by a disappointed job seeker? … won. What do we do now? They did what was typical of most Presidents prior to that time, the old BOGSAT system—a bunch …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in Massachusetts. You had the possibility of the Vice Presidency in 1956 and—those were the days when conventions … hooked on watching the convention on TV. Then of course, President Kennedy ran and won in 1960. I had graduated from … Oswald. It was all so tragic and bizarre. After the President’s death, I wrote to Kenny O’Donnell, who had …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… term—to be in the meeting where we recommended to the President that the parade be canceled simply because we were … We had been advised that at the ten-year mark in a post-Presidency era, that was about the time that things would … were a couple of bouts with cancer—both her own, and the President’s. She is a very blessed woman, there’s no …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Cederberg, what’s your question? Cederberg said, Well, Mr. President, I support you on this war, but what I don’t … one of the reasons that I’ve heard it suggested that Presidents can be particularly vulnerable to advice being … be concise and make their points and boom, boom, boom. A President’s looking for clarity; he’s looking for help and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… controversies erupted between the Democratic Congress and President [Richard] Nixon. One of them involved a question of the separation of powers between Congress and the President under the Constitution. Senator Kennedy felt very … to include the legislation as a public law, because the President’s attempt to pocket veto it was invalid. The …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… we study, so that the voices and story of the Presidency, as it was seen by those who knew it best, can be … Boyden Gray was at that time— Barr Counsel to the Vice President. I didn’t have too much contact with Bush, but I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… you have any particular recollections of that drive with President Hoover? Culver The only thing I recall was Hoover … Yes. I think the warmth, openness, and fun contributed to President Kennedy’s special affection for Ted. Ted, being the … the boat, on the Honey Fitz, with the Ambassador and the President and Bobby, Ted, and myself. I would just try to …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Young This is a President Ronald Reagan Oral History Project interview with … just a year and a half. I’ve been messing around with the Presidency all my career. Laxalt Really, that’s wonderful. As … political scientist— Hargrove But you’ve got to study the Presidents in context. You can’t leave the President out, so …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… them? Miller I was fortunate enough to be invited to meet President [John F.] Kennedy, on May 3, 1963, in the White … on Robert Kennedy's staff. When he was running for the Presidency, I was a press assistant at Kennedy headquarters, …
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| Bill Clinton Project… guru. Michael said, Yes, I am. Unless I can see the President, I’m resigning. Sununu said, Oh well, we’ll take … about how that reduced vote affected the entry of his Presidency. Was there a sense on Capitol Hill, or in the … in our caucus who suddenly started to say, We have the President’s budget, and there’s stuff in here about …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… campaign—Paul Douglas, who had been very close to President Kennedy. I wonder if we could check that. Beth? … should we make any effort to try to secure the Vice Presidency for Bobby in ’68? Those were at least the four …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… or four days and he said, Don, would you like to help the President’s brother if he decides to run? So I said, … that he was this way and that way, but the power of the Presidency, you can do a lot of things that nobody knows …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was American foreign policy, and it was the night that President Kennedy announced the end of the Cuban Missile … and everything being done to try and contain it. President Kennedy, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, within … do anything but believe, and then he got out of the Presidency. I think he just couldn’t get any—he couldn’t bear …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Surely, right. I met them, actually, in my role as then president and dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine. Our … wife and I were always being invited to things at the Vice President's home. So we'd gotten to know both of the Bushes …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… like the Irish, were in various tight knit communities. President [John F.] Kennedy came back from visiting Ireland … When he had the dust-up with Cabot Lodge, he went to see President [Grover] Cleveland about it. I’m not sure how much … we arrive in the Senate. I was elected to the Senate, and President Kennedy had been interested in immigration and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… deploy a system. Young Wiesner had been science advisor to President Kennedy? Parker Yes, and Chayes had been in the … members still had the attitude that basically Whatever the President wants, the President gets. I think that Chayes and … had included that a bill could become law without the President’s signature if the 10-day period had expired and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… knew there was a chance that there was going to be a new President. Did it emanate from the [Gerald] Ford …
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| Bill Clinton Project… ninety-two was a very unusual year politically. The first President [George H.W.] Bush started out that election cycle … all the Democrats at that time who were seen as credible Presidents—Bill Bradley, Sam Nunn, Al Gore, Mario Cuomo, … President. He came into the campaign and into the Presidency with a distinct political philosophy, a distinct …