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Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… the Domestic Policy Council in the final years of the Bush Presidency, with particular focus on Veterans Affairs, stem … in serving as the Domestic Policy Advisor to the President?” I wasn’t even aware that the position was open. I … the fact that he seemed to be a practical person. The Presidency is a dreadfully, oppressively difficult position, …
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| George W. Bush Project… Robert Gates; and the role of the Office of the Vice President … to you is how early do you recall Iraq being on the President's radar and how do we move--particularly after …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… issues. He then talks about Kennedy’s 1980 run for the presidency and how his loss to Carter affected Kennedy’s … no idea at the time that Melody had worked previously with President John Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy and knew … the most consequential judicial nominations of the Bush Presidency. The major and decisive difference between 1987 …
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| George W. Bush Project… Presidential transition; her role as staff secretary; the President’s schedule; her observations of Dick Cheney; the … the people who come into the White House to staff the President, the community of individuals, which I think is …
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| George W. Bush Project… with Congress, foreign intelligence leaders, the FBI, and President Bush. … Podesta, the Chief of Staff, but that was it. So now President Bush is inaugurated and we’re feeling a … but there’s a bit of a hall pass because it’s the President’s base that’s not happy with him, they kind of …
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| Bill Clinton Project… his impressions of Robert Rubin, Gene Sperling, Vice President Al Gore, and Lloyd Bentsen; his own confirmation as … you would like to give us your impressions of the Vice President, of Secretary [Robert] Rubin, and of the other core … of the economic team. He carried the torch for the President’s passions and interests. He brought enormous …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to countries such as South Africa and his nomination by President Bill Clinton as assistant secretary for government … had given him protection prior to his announcing for President. There was all the big lead-in to what became a … went to Faneuil Hall and saw him announce his run for the Presidency of the United States. As an African American kid …
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| Bill Clinton Project… going to discuss which of the 15 of us was going to be President of the United States. We had been real hotshots in … I said, "The guy through that door is going to win you the Presidency." Clinton was very good about this. To his great …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… skills, and comments on the ideal relationship between a president and his advisors. He also evaluates several key … Cutler concludes with an assessment of the Carter presidency, which he calls a systemic failure rather than a … latter appointment as part of a general recognition by the President and his staff that they needed to tap more, and …
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| George W. Bush Project… State); the Iraq War troop surge; interactions with President Bush, and the roles of Iraqi leaders such as Ayad …
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| George W. Bush Project… He discusses his dual-hatted role as both counsel to the President, reporting to the White House Office of Legal … between the White House OLC, the Office of the Vice President, the Defense Department, the State Department, and … most senior lawyer in the White House, the counsel to the President. Kassop That would have been Mary DeRosa, right? …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… health insurance bill. Very little is said about President Reagan in the course of the interview, with the … time. They had the call transferred to me, and it was the President on the other end asking if I would be his nominee … So how do you deal with that? Bowen I guess that was the President’s problem, because Regan wasn’t there that much. …
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| George W. Bush Project… with Congress; stem cell research; energy issues and Vice President Dick Cheney; Bush’s relationship with Cheney; the … White House, how you were going to spend your time, the President's time, the whiteboards and so forth, sort of the …
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| George W. Bush Project… of being the first Director of National Intelligence; the President’s Daily Brief; the relationship among the National … experiences as a diplomat, before coming into the 43rd Presidency, were most important for you, if you can identify … when his father was President-elect. I met him at the Vice President’s house. So we had a very brief interview. I mean, …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Perot, Dan Quayle, and general impressions of the Bush presidency. Participants: Stephen Knott, University of … his name. He did some oral history of, I think, the Vice Presidency. I tried to wrack my brains--a really nice …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… at the legacy of the Reagan administration, crediting the President with unprecedented economic expansion, winning the … people who might be taking the awesome position of President of the United States down to people who might be … Now what I say today is what Ronald Reagan did in his presidency, told from the Jim Miller point of view. Why was …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… He describes his decision to abandon his 1988 bid for the presidency and join the administration at Reagan's request, … you how you came to be selected as Chief of Staff for President Reagan. Baker You’ll have to find somebody else to … operation at the White House was in disarray and that the President’s initiative was sort of at sea, then he appeared …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… years and its accomplishments, and his assessment of President Reagan and the policy record of his … talk about a project they did. He started IRRI, then was president of the University of New Hampshire, and then for …
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| George W. Bush Project… unitary executive theory; his relationship with Vice President Dick Cheney; Vladimir Putin; the War on Terror; the … the 2000 era, which would be our main focus from the Bush Presidency. A lot of what we read about your time as Speaker, … got up on the floor of the House and basically said, "Mr. President, you need to resign," and he went on, "for the same …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… the misguided operation, its effect on the White House and President Reagan, the congressional and independent counsel … various operations, his surgical procedures, while he was President. The question was whether the Twenty-fifth … Law School he became involved with something called the President’s Advisory Council on Executive Organization, known …