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| Bill Clinton Project… picked it up. It was Mickey Kantor. This was the day after President Clinton announced that he would nominate Mickey to … and ask you a question about your own knowledge about the President’s commitments on trade. Your discussions with … with the Chinese for several years prior to the Clinton presidency on the GATT (the forerunner of the WTO), but these …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in how you spent the time after your brother’s election as President, before your announcement. This involves a lot of … this was going to have an impact on the President and the Presidency—too many Kennedys and that kind of thing. I’m not …
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| Bill Clinton Project… twenty, thirty years from now who want to understand this Presidency in a way that you understand it. So feel free to … strikes me as interesting about your relationship with President Clinton is the fact that you both were involved, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… hearing on this when the whole issue was coming to a head. President Clinton invited the members of the Armed Services … Vietnam War. So this contributed, in the early part of his Presidency, to a troubled time for him. Young And he said … Kennedy Yes. Mrs. Kennedy Very much. Young The Presidents didn’t give you much support on this or come out …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was so important: Bob McDonough was the guy. When the President was elected, Bob was the guy who got credit for all … But was he the kind of person who would naturally see the Presidency, the executive part, as the place you got things …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… it’s a very unusual situation, with a two-term President, followed by a President of the same party, Vice … State. I came up through the political channel. I was the President’s political advisor and there was never any … would argue that that was the only real blot on the Reagan Presidency. But there were some partisans up on Capitol Hill …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and many others made some very important decisions. After President [John F.] Kennedy was elected and after trying to … Supreme Court decision on the issues of prayer in school. President Kennedy made one of his very important and famous … of anxiety even between the ethnic groups. I mean in 1958 President Kennedy had a slogan, “Make Your Vote Count,” …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… you track your political career and your experience of Presidents and their campaigns or their policies, because … Lyndon Johnson say, I will not be a candidate for the Presidency, which was on March 30 th , or something like … he really was very capable, and of course he’d been Vice President of the United States for two terms and Senator— …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… mean, the story that captures that sense was the time when President Kennedy came back from Ireland. He’d gone to … was to target, in a very personal way, both my brothers, President Kennedy and Bobby. I talked to the White House just … then. You didn’t have this kind of— Young And you had the Presidency pushing for progress or at least, even under Nixon …
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| George W. Bush Project… how that person developed and ended up then serving the President in the particular capacity he or she did. We have … of these interviews, in fact the entire oral history of a Presidency and any event. We know that there are many other … on in Somalia. Pace My personal interactions with the Presidents didn’t really begin until 2000 when I became the …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… we could start off by simply asking you when you first met President Reagan and what your initial impressions of him … he got George Bush on the phone and offered him the Vice Presidency without any of this going through former President … office, how big the gap was. Knott Another priority of the President’s initially was to try to balance the budget. Of …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that, primarily Frank Morrissey, who had been around with President [John F.] Kennedy and also had been very close to … instead of staying on the Judiciary Committee because of President [Ronald] Reagan’s attack on domestic issues and … were all functioning and working. You had a belief in the Presidency and what they were going to do. And the Justice …
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| George W. Bush Project… of working for the National Security Council staff under President [Gerald] Ford, and we'll take things from there. … a political perspective, a communications perspective, the President's perspective, which is something else again. You … The issues are different. We're in a different part of his Presidency. I've got a second-term President who is much more …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the background, and then Cardinal Cushing’s closeness to President Kennedy, shown by the fact that he officiated at … a movement that he had nothing to do with to run him for President, but he just didn’t want to be involved with … would run for Vice President, he would not accept the Vice Presidency. And then he made a speech in Worcester in which …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I’m not really sure that a lot has been written about President [John] Kennedy and his children, but he was … although I only stayed up there one weekend when he was President, but he didn’t use it very much. On the weekends he … that stuff set up. We had also read a book about the presidents and their pets, but we thought that was not …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… straight in a crisis in the Oval Office if he ever ran for President. Well, a President is not usually drowned and held … two in an inaccurate way. We do not physically abuse our Presidents before they have to make a decision, and from what … of course it was being mentioned, his running for the Presidency, and he was so beloved around the world. She was a …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… hung out with the Talabani family, and Jalal Talabani, now President of Iraq. I went all through Central America, … You go into the homes and there are pictures of Jesus and President [John F.] Kennedy—still. This was really stunning. … National Congress] people, and you know now they’re all presidents. I was up in the Clinton Global Initiative thing a …
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| Bill Clinton Project… telling as far as my future career: I ended up writing the president of the university a letter saying, You’re crazy, … also need to have some reason. I think the most successful Presidents are the ones who are the clearest about what they …
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| Bill Clinton Project… begin by asking you about your earliest associations with President Clinton. But I think that there’s something … of the Armed Services Committee. He was the one who presided over my confirmation hearing as Deputy Secretary of …
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| George W. Bush Project… was appropriate. Townsend And I am Frances Townsend. I was President George W. Bush's Deputy National Security Advisor … having worked in an important role in these successive Presidencies. My sense is that an association with President … was not a usual commendation for a position in the 43rd Presidency. But tell us how you got from New York to …