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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… on the Supreme Court in terms of being appointed by President [Gerald] Ford. Johnson Yes. And he’s very …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… boost for our morale, especially at a time when there was President Reagan, there was Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher, who … effectively than others. Young Well, he made a run for the Presidency in 1980 and he was running against Jimmy Carter, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… bill, because that was very much on the front pages. President [Lyndon Baines] Johnson, as we said, had had the … month on the job—to make a number of proposals off of the President's crime commission. The first was the establishment … that Nixon made that appointment of Burger early in his Presidency, and it was not highly contested. Here's a short …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Let's start with your recollections of either meeting President Clinton or of the campaign period through 1992. … Budget Office] estimates, which was different from what Presidents normally do. Martin Normally using OMB estimates? … why this vote was seen as being important for the Clinton Presidency. A lot of folks would say that if the budget …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… generations to acquire some understanding of the Reagan Presidency and your role in it. We’re very grateful that … little sub-staff that did the daily news summary for the President and would occasionally write a speech, write … Washington very well. And incidentally, of all the recent Presidents, I would say he understood the governmental …
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| Bill Clinton Project… in welfare offices than anyone else who’d ever sought the Presidency, so he was able to speak about the issue in a way … spend money on it. I fought hard to be an Assistant to the President so I could have a seat at the table so I could … Ellwood wanted to go slowly, we all wanted to keep the President’s promise, and everybody on the welfare task force …
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| Bill Clinton Project… had a chance to think through what he wanted to do as President. In the '80s there was a great fascination with … else. Reed That's true. At key points in the Clinton Presidency, the speechwriting department was where the rubber …
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| Bill Clinton Project… with Iraq, almost immediately because it flowed from the President’s comments, was were we in favor of the removal of … meetings on the domestic side, at least early on in his Presidency. Lake Yes, he did. Absolutely. He loved it. Even …
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| Bill Clinton Project… on Bosnia, which suggests, I believe, that I presented to President Clinton a plan for allowing the Iranians to send … through from week to week or month to month through the presidency. So with that sort of preface, could you then take … of his position on domestic issues. That is primarily why Presidents get elected and should get elected. Many people …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… one with [Ronald] Reagan—we have now completed our Reagan Presidency Project.George H. W. Bush. Now we’re engaged in a … them in, but not into the White House and not to—The President wasn’t going to meet them.As far as he was …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… legislative experience coming in. It’s so hard on any new President, with people who don’t know how the system works. … bipartisan, or really just a stance away from either the President or the party, but at the end of the day, they’re … that ’96 is coming along, a Presidential election for a President who’s on an upward swing because he wins the …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Ronnie, you’ve got to make a run for the primary, for the Presidency. I think you would do great. There were about … One thousand dollars per person, made out to Reagan for President. This is the maximum amount contributable by any …
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| George W. Bush Project… position at the State Department ironically was due to President George Herbert Walker Bush. There had been a … remember with either [I. Lewis] Scooter Libby in the Vice President’s office or with Paul Wolfowitz, who may or may not … and came in at a time when there had been a series of Presidents who entered office with a great deal of Washington …
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| George W. Bush Project… manager sets. We tend to project the personality of the President in sort of a 60-foot-high shadow character along … he’s not playing a passive role because he’s defining his Presidency and who he is in contrast to [Mikhail] Gorbachev, …
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| Bill Clinton Project… situationit was the first, really, use of force. A President who was not naturally inclined to hard power became … the United States was instrumental in restoring to the Presidency the first genuinely democratically elected …
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| Bill Clinton Project… here, so please lead us. We’re the students of the presidency, and we might raise a question to interrupt. We … until the end of the day. My privilege to serve not only President Clinton and the Clinton administration, but most … a lifelong friend—I have had the privilege to know other Presidents and other leaders, but it’s a different feeling …
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| Bill Clinton Project… in, and ultimately to head, the search for the Vice President. So, as I say, Jim, my involvement was unexpected … me dry of all the memories I had about working for other Presidents. Young Was he easy to get to know or difficult, … Clinton, with Governor Clinton on the subject of the Vice Presidency took place in Tallahassee, Florida, when Kantor …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with reference to civil rights at home and abroad. Kennedy President [Ronald] Reagan was elected. In 1982, we were faced … very important and very effective. Then we had a veto by President Reagan, but we overrode it. I guess that was …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… about the ’88 campaign–and its relation to the Bush presidency, particularly your role in it. Baker I would begin … tooteth, is that right? Well that was the election that President Bush, Vice President Bush, won to make him … Baker I think Teeley was the press person at the Vice President’s office rather than at the campaign. I bet he was …
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| George W. Bush Project… were saying that you had looked, last night late, at the President's memoir and Hank Paulson's book. Bolten I knew we … we would not survive the final three years of the Bush Presidency without a financial crisis, and that John Snow, …