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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… first came—you mentioned earlier that you were close to John Kennedy. Healy Yes, well we were both—I’ve got some … Archbishop [Richard] Cushing. He was the head of—Pope John named him head of St. James Society, but he was sort of … the bag for years. I mean, you know, I worked that Sherman Adams story. Knott Oh yes, right. Healy I got screwed out of …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Massachusetts State Convention where his brother, Senator John F. Kennedy, was giving a speech. I had just taken a … excited that I lived in a city that had two Presidents: John Adams and John Quincy Adams. We loved living near the Cradle …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in’76. The candidate that emerged at that time for us was John Glenn, because he was the perfect Boy Scout, in a sense. … still now. President Carter expressed great admiration for John Kennedy. Maybe that was part of the problem, I do not … when it happened, and the 26th, when he made his speech. [Adam] Clymer and others have written something about that. I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of Representatives in 1960. That was the year President [John F.] Kennedy was elected, and so of course, as President … and to the committee. Senator Eastland, although he was adamant in his opposition, didn’t attempt to block action by … The Bishop of Washington was a friend of Bishop Tutu’s and Adam Harris’s guest. I met him in that way. Martin During …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… this question. Ahern Sure. Young We’ve talked already with John Hume, with Garret FitzGerald, Sean Donlon, Al [Albert] … in a minute, but—You see, [John] Hume, the Hume–[Gerry] Adams talks started in ’88. Young Yes. Ahern Hume met with … about the Northern Security Services, we were absolutely adamant that this had been created by the bank, that the bank …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Smith—the man who turned out to be the seat warmer between John and Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts—were there and had been … you think of Ted Kennedy, as opposed to his brother Jack [John F. Kennedy]? Do you feel comfortable making any sort of … it to get to the heart of the matter. Knott Have you read Adam Clymer’s book about Senator Kennedy? Broder Yes. Knott …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of view, less regulation is important. That’s why we got [John W.] Barnum, who was Acting Secretary of Transportation. … charge of Congress, or Congressional Relations. It wasn’t John Snow. It was before John Snow. He called and asked me to … won’t remember that, but I remember it. Brock [Brockman] Adams was Secretary of Transportation. So he and I go over to …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… whom we had met at the hotel, and Sharon. Jean sat with John and Pat [Patricia] Hume, whom she knew, at a different … you sat with the official delegation, and I sat with John and Pat Hume. When we got there, it was quite … the whole audience. It was very sophisticated. [Gerry] Adams was there. He had all of his top lieutenants there, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Irishness of the Kennedys, and then all that happened to John F. [Kennedy], winning the Presidency against [Richard … I lived just 100 yards up the road from there. I watched John F. coming here in June of ’63, from the top of the … there was dialogue with the IRA, between Reid and Gerry Adams and others. Ahern Yes. And the IRA. Young So those were …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the homes and there are pictures of Jesus and President [John F.] Kennedy—still. This was really stunning. Brazil—I’ll … can’t say the recipients’ names—you can do nothing with Adam Michnik or Zbigniew Bujak in public. You can’t say their … John Hume had started these secret talks with [Gerry] Adams that he kept us posted on. I really trusted his …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… ceremony, and two were before that but after the Gerry Adams visa situation was finished, and the continuing … system. It was seen in its full glory at the time of the Adams visa, for instance. But there is a positive side to … ask when the peace movement got underway? Would that be in John Hume’s time, or would it have been—this is in reference …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… were in print all over the place. With some nominees, like John Roberts, there was not much in print that you could get … the Catholic community in Northern Ireland felt that the John Hume SDLP view was the path of the future, not the Gerry Adams IRA view. Our feeling, as we moved into the ’80s, was …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for Democratic Action. And then I got involved with the [John F.] Kennedy campaign, in 1960. A group of us were … adversary on most issues. My friend Joe Rauh, again, was adamant that Johnson was not our kind of person. So I came to … impressed as hell with the speeches. He’s given them at Johns Hopkins; he’s given them at other places. Knott He just …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… same time, with a very young and enthusiastic President [John F.] Kennedy, I saw the country moving in a new … in the organization of that event. We got people from Adams involved, and we briefed the Senator on some of the … Electric movement, and the Housatonic River group was adamant about having it go to the Superfund. It reached a …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Stevenson just picked up the phone and called John Sparkman in 1952 and said, "Would you like to run with … I also think you need room for spontaneity in campaigns. John Kennedy might not have been elected President if a young … He and Teddy, who was then 12, took turns reading John Brown's Body to each other. When JFK had his operation …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Personnel Office. Kaufman talks about working with John Sununu and Richard Darman. He discusses the 1992 … volunteer back home in Quincy, Massachusetts, home of the Adamses. I got involved in politics as a volunteer, passing … Reagan, the favorite, to Howard Baker who was second, to John Connally, to George Herbert Walker Bush, to Ben …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to Ireland, Senator, we talked with Garret [Fitzgerald], John [Hume], the Foreign Minister up in Dundalk—and who was … the whole unfolding of events from the time you first met John Hume. I think that probably marked your first active … what you learned of them through your grandfather [John Francis Honey Fitz ] Fitzgerald. Do you want to talk …
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| Bill Clinton Project… York primary. Strong He didn’t have to say yes to [Gerry] Adams. He could have just said yes to the outside— Soderberg … in the fall of ’93. Then the whole visa thing came. Strong Adams’ requests were denied the first year. Soderberg I think … was twice in ’93, I think. I think they did it initially. Adams applied right away. In fact, I don’t even remember any …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and it started with a phone call directly from Congressman John Conyers of Michigan. There my memory is a little cloudy, … the progress the Supreme Court had begun. It was, as John Conyers said, a very important thing. I went back and … Flug That's what I've seen in my readings. That's in the [Adam] Clymer book. I did not go back and look at the …
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| George W. Bush Project… in and out. Feaver I think there is a number. Steve Walt, John Mearsheimer, Ken Waltz, who have not gone back and … would mean in a political partisan way, the message for [John] Kerry was that he should say the exact opposite of what … on it. In 2004 I did a lot of emailing, kibitzing with Tim Adams and Joel Shin, who were in the campaign and their job …