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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… district attorney. He came from our Hungry Hill. Then when John Kennedy was running, I did a little work around western … that business because my mother asked me to do that. When John Kennedy was elected—and Larry O’Brien, who’s from … showings. I went from Longmeadow, Mass., right up to North Adams. Italian Women’s Club, Sons of Italy, anybody that had …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… lose to the guy who was running against him, a guy named John Lakian, I think. I never thought that was going to … Ailes and these people: "Do not compare yourself to John Kennedy." And the fourth time, and I think Brokaw began … of the State Department, to give a visa to Gerry Adams from Northern Ireland. I think that opened the door to …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… gone with him. Heininger But probably not during Jack’s [John F. Kennedy] campaign and probably not during his own … are usually two-bit politicians. I did not observe it, but John Culver tells me that once this guy from one of the towns … Tunney and they’re trying to decide about the eulogies. Adam Walinsky had given them some of Bobby’s sayings, some of …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… evolving process. When I was talking about this issue with Adam Clymer, I recalled very clearly during my first campaign … to talk to a women’s group and talking to my brother Jack [John F. Kennedy], who happened to be up at the apartment at … part of the Massachusetts State Constitution, written by John Adams in 1780, that referred to the protections of …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… in the White House counsel’s office. The counsel was John Dean, and he was 32 years old. They were looking for … when Watergate unfolds? Fielding Oh, yes. Knott Of course, John Dean is very much in the thick of that. Fielding Right. … I was working on his confirmation. He used to wear Adam Smith ties. And one day we were getting ready for a big …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… sure about that. Of course, as for a lot of people my age, John Kennedy was a hero, along with Hubert Humphrey. I was … itself. Knott And of course, it didn’t help to have John Anderson in the race. Mondale No, but if Carter had come … who worked for them, like I think it’s the Kennedy-[John] McCain Immigration bill. It’s the best bill out there. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… . Meanwhile, the policy director for Senator Daschle, John Hilley, at a staff director’s meeting on February 28, … and recruited allies outside the Senate. He got Cardinal John O’Connor, Archbishop of New York, to write an op-ed in … Senators [Olympia] Snowe and [Susan] Collins from Maine, [John] Chafee from Rhode Island, Jeffords and [Arlen] Specter. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… other cousins, and in that time that Bobby was alive, only John [Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.] and Caroline [Kennedy] didn’t … the piano. He got that from his mother and Honey Fitz [John F. Fitzgerald]. He liked her history in Boston, her … doing it. I saw David McCullough, who wrote the [John] Adams book, somewhere, and I asked him about it. He said, “I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in Ireland and build more trade. I did get to know Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, and David Trimble and, of course, John Hume. I got to know all those people. About a year or so … I wasn’t involved with it, he’s recently been working with John McCain, and of course he was working with George W. Bush …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… is mentioned. Gargan discusses the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the family’s situation in the following … a political office. Then, after consulting with President [John F.] Kennedy and others, he decided to run for the United … Boston, his father lived there. And of course, his uncle, John McCormack, was the Speaker of the House at that time. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… shadows of his brothers and basically was the next JFK [John Fitzgerald Kennedy] or the next RFK [Robert Francis … House days, to understand what was happening with Gerry Adams when he said that he couldn’t get a visa from the State … quickly after Adams got his visa. The State Department was adamant against it. I think that Bill Clinton, to his credit, …
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| George W. Bush Project… working on him and a lot of people were working on him. John Kerry was involved at the time too. So there was a … published by Bernhard Schwartländer, but the key person is John Stover, whom I then started to communicate with, again … out at some point. Riley Right. Dybul So I got from John—He was willing to share with me—because they only …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Berkowitz You know that there’s a quote about President [John F.] Kennedy which said they talked to him about … still alive and I took a course from him. There was Ken [John Kenneth] Galbraith, whom I didn’t respect as much as I … Barbara Ward, Lady Jackson, was around a lot. John Meyer, who’s a pretty well known economist, was my …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… late ’60s as a different kind of Kennedy from President [John F.] Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. Most Senators felt, … tent and give up. Young There are accounts, I think, of Adam Clymer and perhaps other writers—was it after the Iowa … was rough stuff in this campaign, wait until you see what John Adams said about Thomas Jefferson, as though politics is …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the bathroom and the boat lurched and I lurched off the john and hit my nose against the window and had a nosebleed … like a lot of people, Bill really idolized and worshipped John Kennedy, and had that feeling of Ted as the little …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that meeting we spent more time talking about President [John F.] Kennedy than anything else, which is a whole other … to have a very quiet breakfast with Brzezinski at the Hay Adams, and a meeting with Scowcroft in this office. I … Kennedy and I were talking before a speech he delivered at Johns Hopkins the second time around, the one from July. I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… all of it. He was allergic to everything. My brother Jack [John F.] Kennedy was allergic to cat fur and my sister Pat … a matter of hours. We went, later that afternoon, up to Johns Hopkins and had discussions up there with their medical … of doctors and nurses at the Lahey Clinic. Dr. [Herbert] Adams, who was the head doctor up there—there may have been a …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… related to my COWPS responsibilities. After talking to John Dunlop and Arnie Weber I was led to Jack Gentry, who was … ever to apply sanctions of any kind. That was the deal; John Dunlop put this together. Rapp In exchange for the … that he assumed the leadership in the negotiations with John Dunlop, and through John Dunlop with the leaders of …
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| Bill Clinton Project… given me. I was reading a newspaper article one day about John Lindsay’s chief staffers. They were people who ran … levy limits in—to constrain property taxes. They were adamant about reducing that property tax and having it stay … Martin said sure, so he set up; then Martin hired John [Haynes], who had been in the Governor’s office and with …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Committee, run by Harley Staggers from West Virginia, then John Dingell, when it became a very active committee. It had … he worked under two very powerful chairmen, right? John Tower and Sam Nunn, if I remember correctly. How did … debt and that has killed a lot of people. It prevented John Glenn from ever running again. He was adamant that he …