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Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… easy or difficult was it to do that with Bill Clinton as President? Chrétien The problem was perception. My … Riley Sure. Did you ever get the sense the American Presidents were jealous of your ability to move your system? …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… airliner that was coming out of Cairo. The Egyptian President told us that the hijackers were long since gone. We … trying to get done up front in the cookie factory, where President [Ronald] Reagan was. We set up surveillance of the … we’re not going to get out on 20 January, and the Clinton Presidency, had they had a year’s experience under their belt …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… there, he’s got his family, his brothers’ history, and the Presidency and the Department of Justice to build on as well, … you ever get the sense from him that he was concerned that President [William] Clinton might—there was concern at the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… memorable. I went there at the time when Richard Nixon was President and worked there during those years when Nixon had … know, this was the end of the LBJ [Lyndon Baines Johnson] Presidency. I want to say Stuart Udall was Secretary of …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… best friends. Father [John Joseph] Cavanaugh who was the president of Notre Dame, was one of his four or five best … speak at St John’s Episcopal, which is the church of the Presidents, basically across the street from the White House. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Therein is another story that involves the Vice President. Young You told that. Bates I was on the phone … and fate, if you will, ended that stride toward the Presidency, which may have been what he wanted—not the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… those when I was a kid. This reporter said, “When you were President of the United States, Mr. President, weren’t you … see what the program is.” Teddy was on the floor; He was presiding in the Senate. He was a freshman Senator. Anyway, … worth of tickets; I was doing better then. She said, “The President’s been shot, the President’s been shot.” I said, …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Coral Gables. That was the year George McGovern ran for President, and I won the nomination handily but was defeated … and said he'd just finished a conversation with the President and I should expect to come to Washington the next … some extent as an advocate of Presidential power and the Presidency within the constitutional system? Reno I think the …
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| Bill Clinton Project… certain areas, and that resulted in George Bush becoming President. Also it resulted in undermining the Supreme Court … Court, Bush taking office, and then of course the Bush Presidency, which is an historic Presidency, and a lot of …
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| Bill Clinton Project… administration, Joe Onek, who was deputy counsel to the President, had been the director of the Center for Law and … the Secretary but also the Deputy Secretary who was presiding over the daily morning meeting and who saw us as …
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| Bill Clinton Project… I get to the White House, you can start asking me what Presidents I used to think about in the White House. … at that particular time. I tried to make the life of the president and the deans miserable, and from time to time I …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… of ideas—to give their perspective on the Ronald Reagan Presidency, and on their time in power. Most of the views of the President and of the Presidency are judgments from the … your title is. It doesn’t matter what your rank is. The President’s going to rely on and take advice from people he …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… issues affecting the economy. Young Walter Heller had been President [John F.] Kennedy’s chairman of— Parker Yes, the … after Robert Kennedy’s death, but to some extent after President Kennedy’s assassination as well, he was a second … oral history record. And then there’s the 1980 run for the Presidency, the campaign experience, and how that evolved and …
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| Bill Clinton Project… road who will want to come back and understand the Clinton Presidency in a way that you can tell us about that nobody … when I was in college, graduate school, Ronald Reagan was President, and rightly or wrongly, many of us thought he was … He had risen to greater heights. He only hung out with Presidents and Senators and I was just a lowly guy. I’m …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in a lot of things. Despite a willingness to work with President [George Walker] Bush early on with No Child Left … a little. The best examples I can think of are when President [William Jefferson] Clinton nominated Justice [Ruth … wage. We had trouble getting— Even though I supported my Presidents, I have a different view. I don’t think it is …
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| Bill Clinton Project… the government shutdown where I came and met with the President, but I was not part of the process in the White … the President 15 minutes a week as had happened in prior Presidencies. It was not my assumption that I would be there … had taken back the Democrats. So yes, we thought that the Presidency had been hijacked by lots of forces and we had no …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Riley Successfully? Edelman Well, mostly not, but I was president of the All-City Student Council in high school, and … Onward and upward, American progress, we always have good Presidents now. It’s a long time since Herbert Hoover. But …
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| Bill Clinton Project… that we were trying to produce something comparable to the President’s economic report with a staff of three—in just … policy process and the end of any discretion for a Clinton Presidency. How did those, as you see it, feed into Clinton’s …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Counsel. I had been to one or maybe two meetings with the President. That was a little different. I had that kind of … The history of that was that when [William J.] Clinton was President, the Republicans had stopped something like 60 … needed, and they thought they might have to bring the Vice President in to break a tie, which would have created another …
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| Bill Clinton Project… First of all, anyone who says to you, I’m going to be President, either they’re a nutcase—if you’re a New Yorker … Walter Mondale so much? I didn’t think he should run for President, but I was for children. The whole issue of my life … been easier. Riley I guess during the first year of the Presidency, they brought David Gergen in, to some extent. …