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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I was doing some research work for him) was nominated by President [Lyndon] Johnson to be an Assistant Secretary of … time, but he loved to do it, because he had done it for President Kennedy. So he knew all the tricks. It was a … the Chappaquiddick piece. The aftermath of it, the Nixon Presidency—politics were turning nasty by then. Ted would …
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| George W. Bush Project… and he would look at me and say, "Listen, big boy. I'm [President Dwight D.] Eisenhower; you're [Andrew] Goodpaster. … W.] Bush v. [Albert] Gore, when Bush was finally declared President-elect, two of the people that had mentored me—one … approach associated with [Donald H.] Rumsfeld and Vice President [Richard B.] Cheney. That was the context into …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Bobby Kennedy announced that he was going to run for the Presidency that year. I knew a couple of people who knew some … Kennerly, who in later years when [Gerald] Ford became President, was Ford’s personal photographer. I said to John …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… this was the end of his thinking about running for the Presidency, his defeat for the nomination, but maybe I'm … it. You see, I was not crazy about him running for the Presidency to begin with. I didn't think he needed to be … done. P. Kennedy This is the thing, our family was about Presidency, and yet for him, it was ideally suited that he …
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| George W. Bush Project… amongst the principals, and particularly the Vice President's office and the Defense Department, about what we … Agency have confidence in the White House during the Bush Presidency? Bellinger I don't know—Of course, it was a …
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| George W. Bush Project… to have that—to maintain my viability in the system, as President Clinton would have described it. I came out of the … public signs of disrespect by private officers toward the President. The fact that you were an expert in this area, as … I did in my first month on the NSC staff was arranging the President’s involvement in Colin Powell’s retirement …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… people in the town—Mr. Ephron Catlin, who was the vice president of a bank in Boston, and a few other people—who … I really didn’t associate it with anything. Actually, the President [John F. Kennedy] was a Congressman at the time. He …
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| Bill Clinton Project… grandparent saying that [Harry S.] Truman had been a good President. And I remember cutting out a picture of [Dwight] … He’s clearly wanting to look toward running for the Presidency. He’s now been in office—I think it’s ten years. I …
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| George W. Bush Project… bit before. I actually liked Jimmy Carter when he was President. Riley So you’re old enough to remember that? Dybul … go, but I couldn’t. And then—one advantage of being the president’s assistant is without any premed classes I could …
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| George W. Bush Project… criminal justice process. I had been U.S. attorney under President [George H. W.] Bush, so I was well known to people … the personnel people. This must have been right after the President was inaugurated, maybe slightly before but probably … coming from…? Chertoff The Defense Department and the Vice President’s Office generally had the view that pretty much …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Harry Reid and Dick Durbin were down visiting with the President and the President said, “It would be good if we get something done in … these other issues. And then we have 1963. I had been presiding in the Senate on the 22nd of November, and at …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was it? Not Sam Rayburn, the Texan, talking about the Vice Presidency being about as enjoyable as a warm pitcher of … worked on the assumption that Kennedy was going to run for President. So the first month I was there, I was pulling …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for Massachusetts, expectations were high. One brother was President, and another brother was Attorney General. So there …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… she’s now the Queen of Holland, and she’d been invited by President [John] Kennedy, to come to a state luncheon, so we … ever been to the White House. I got to eat dinner with the President, it was great. I’d gotten to know President Kennedy a little bit because he’d come down and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… appropriate for the position and we would let the President have his choice. Howard Metzenbaum, Senator … to having made the decision to give up the run for the Presidency in ’84, still being faced, and shortly to make the … handed him the envelope and went away. Heininger All the President’s Men . Rollins It was a sweet envelope, too. That …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Bobby Kennedy? Raclin How can you—it’s hard to reach the President, it’s hard to start the Special Olympics again, the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… some reason, who took John Kennedy's seat after he became President. We were talking about how Senators are elected, … who he was. Everybody knew he was the brother of the late President. You didn't have to explain who you were if you … see where that part of the story ends. It ends when he's President-elect in Cambridge, and I interviewed him one last …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for reelection in '80. Young Right. So Carter was already President when Ted asked you to do these soundings. Riegle … '80. It was, in essence, a challenge raised to a sitting President. Whether he just wanted to get some initial …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… important—Teddy, you were so instrumental in getting President [William J.] Clinton to give Gerry Adams his visa … was very respectful and very nice, even though she was the President’s representative. She treated Teddy as the senior …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Every morning we would get together at 8:30 in the President’s room off the floor of the Senate. That happens to …