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| Bill Clinton Project… Riley, University of Virginia, Interview Team Chair John Gilmour, College of William & Mary Stephen Goodin … care happened to be the most resonant concern at the time. John Gilmour How did you decide to volunteer for the Clinton … have the majority. In '93, and this may be unfair to the [John D.] Dingells and the [Thomas] Foleys and the Democrats …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Muskie, who in turn was very friendly with President John Kennedy and the entire Kennedy family. I can’t recall … Water Act, but the [Ronald] Reagan Administration was adamantly opposed and we couldn’t get it going. When … a process going, there was a dispute over a visa for Gerry Adams. I recall Ted and Pat Moynihan and Chris Dodd speaking …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… McGovern describes his association with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy in the late 1950s and … the Kennedy family. We know that you worked for President [John F.] Kennedy’s election in 1960 and then became Director … were pressing me to do it. Joe Dolan, his speechwriters, [Adam] Walinsky and [Peter] Edelman and Frank Mankiewicz, John …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I saw Teddy a lot, and I saw others, too. I knew Senator John Culver, for example, and Senator John Tunney. I got to … friendly with Bobby Kennedy’s legislative assistants then, Adam Wolinsky and Peter Edelman, who handled urban issues for … who said, We’ve got to do something about this North Adams problem. We’re not going to get the missiles built, or, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a photograph up there of Senator Kennedy with Senator [John] McCain, which I believe is signed by both of them. Is … his brother’s concern about immigrants. I mean, President [John F.] Kennedy’s book, A Nation of Immigrants, and so … labor protections and all of that, and they have been adamantly against that, with very few exceptions. So we’ve …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… be one of his closest friends. He’s very close now with John Kerry. John Warner is a good friend of his. Senator Paul Laxalt was … in Cambridge. McCullough was doing research for his [John] Adams book and he brought the Senator over for a tour, and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… did it stem from? Schneider It goes back to President [John F.] Kennedy, to the first test ban. Heininger Did he … the interview with Mark Schneider. Schneider With [John] Stennis’s staff, with Jim Woolsey, we got an … that it was under due procedure—There never was torture—adamant that torture would never be accepted. If there were …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in terms of political judgments by my brothers, President [John F.] Kennedy and Bob [Robert Kennedy]. I had worked on … and told him what they had offered, but I immediately sent John Nolan, who had been the negotiator for my brother Bobby … $35 million for the first one. We had a conference with Adam Clayton Powell [Jr.], and in the conference he said, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a bit of a playboy who was skiing in Gstaad with Senator [John] Tunney or was down in Miami Beach or Palm Beach, and … Harvard Law School, between him and his opponent, Speaker [John] McCormack's son, in which Eddie McCormack famously … a man of integrity, but the public doesn't know you from Adam's off ox," which turns out to be the ox on the far …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for the Senator, and I actually was a partner of John Roberts and was involved on the Roberts nomination and … over philosophy going back to the founding, to the [John] Rutledge nomination, number one. Number two, I think … set your criteria too strictly. Knott Was Souter seen as a John Sununu protégé? Blattner Yes, I think that was a very …
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| Bill Clinton Project… the greatest impetus for my interest in politics came from John Kennedy. In 1960, when John Kennedy ran against Richard Nixon and I was nearly the … of his doubts, as Adlai Stevenson once said. He was adamant. In fact, I could not help him in the ’68 campaign …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Gerry [Gerard] Doherty, Ed King, along with Don Dowd. Also John Culver and Jack Crimmins. Charlie Tretter wasn’t on the … My father said that the happiest day of his life was when John F. Kennedy was elected President. That’s the feeling in … do you think we’re announcing here? Knott They covered up John Adams. Frackleton Yes. So they took a back seat when …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Southerners, followed by [Samuel] Ervin and [John] McClellan. I think those are the only ones. But for … do something surprising or different. Sometimes it was [John] McCain; sometimes it was [Charles] Grassley; sometimes … I'm sure the books are full of that—I don't remember what Adam [Clymer] says or what Seymour Hersh says about that …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Young We saw Al [Albert] Reynolds yesterday. We’re seeing John Hume tomorrow. FitzGerald Are you? We’ve had— Donlon He … know that. FitzGerald He said he couldn’t come. Donlon John is beginning to suffer a bit from— Young I know. I think … because of the visit by, was it—? [ Editor’s note: Gerry Adams ] Major wouldn’t take his calls. Must be the first time …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Cabinet. [Thomas] Jefferson of course—and why did [John] Adams’ name not come up a lot in those days? It was because … head of the NSC [National Security Council]—maybe it was [John] Poindexter. I have a photograph with them in it of me …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… probably my third year, were Senator Kennedy and Senator John Tunney, who I think at the time was in the Senate; he’d … resist running John unmercifully. We would lob over John’s head and John would run back, and then we’d lob to the … Yes, labor union, Solidarity—Zbigniew Bujak. And there was Adam Michnik, who was sort of a philosopher, historian, and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to big events—whether it was the impeachment trial or [John] Ashcroft’s confirmation, which I worked on—is that he’s … that everybody was a bit afraid. There was the annual [John] Kerry/Kennedy softball game on the mall. That evening, … deputy chief of staff at the Justice Department. Adam Ciongoli, with whom I clerked on the Third Circuit, was …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to do. He was certainly loyal to the Kennedys. He had been John Kennedy’s roommate in college and stayed close to the … He knew that Eddie McCormack was going to run, Speaker John McCormack’s nephew, and Eddie had been a factor in many … didn’t follow it as closely as the press, but they loved John F. Kennedy in Massachusetts and they loved the family, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… his involvement in foreign international military affairs. Adam Clymer talked a lot about that, but most people who … law firm of Williams & Connelly, and I was representing John Hinckley. In the course of the trial, I realized that … because I was John Hinckley’s lawyer, and was aware of John’s activities and also of the evidence in the case. John, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… primary:Michael Dukakis, obviously, Paul Tsongas, John Kerry. It’s so ironic that Senator Kennedy is the … saw somebody on TV.It was a funeral. It might have been John Kennedy Junior’s funeral.I saw somebody I knew that … over to the House and had to testify at Ways and Means. Adam Clayton Powell basically said, Well, sure, we’re okay, …