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| George H. W. Bush Project… to say that we all sort of thought that we would lose to John Connally in the primaries, and when it was clear that we … Humphrey in ’68 and the only other one, as I recall, was John C. Breckinridge, or something. He was Vice President in … my entire brush with that. I came to know a fellow named John Schmitz, who you must have interviewed, John P. Schmitz? …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… he used the military system. Certainly nobody was Jack [John F.] Kennedy’s chief of staff. Nobody was Johnson’s chief … pick the board and get it started. We wanted people like John DeButts and Frank Cary or Reg Jones. We wanted one of … Republicans with us, [Jacob] Javits and [Charles] Percy. John Glenn wouldn’t come at that point, although he’s now …
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| Bill Clinton Project… the little public school around the corner from my house, John Eaton, and then went in fourth grade to St. Alban's, the … the years in the White House. In fact, I think it was [John] Podesta who sent staffers little Lucite paperweights … make you feel like it was just you in there. Pfiffner [John] Kennedy was like that too. What's fascinating though is …
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| George W. Bush Project… be able to help me, to arrange to meet me down--one was John Manning, who had worked here in this firm, I think he … supportive, and I arranged for them to meet me in Florida. John came to Washington and flew with me down to Florida, and … information, and in the papers the next morning. I think John Manning and I, as I recall, flew down. He stayed …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Thank you for coming. Riley We're in the Honey Fitz [John F. Fitzgerald] Suite at the Parker House Hotel in Boston … and Lee University. Widmer Ted Widmer, now Director of John Carter Brown Library, but I was speechwriter and other … for Edmund Muskie when he was Secretary of State, and for John Lindsay when he was Mayor of New York—a Republican. I'm …
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| Bill Clinton Project… to work. Gore met with me, Bob Stone, Bob [Knisely], and John Kamensky. As we walked out, Gore looked at me and said, … “21 million new jobs” and “the smallest government since John F. Kennedy.” We couldn’t have done that without all … proposition, and there was even a deal to be had, the [John] Chafee deal. There was a deal to be had and Hillary …
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| George W. Bush Project… and soon to have a brother who was a Governor because [John E.] Bush had lost in that go-round. But that whole Bush … level of detail then compared to what you see out of the [John] McCain campaign or the [Barack] Obama campaign. It’s … the day, I knew he wasn’t a movement conservative, but the John Ashcroft story has turned out to be quite interesting. …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Democrat in the state legislature. I believe it was John MacDonald. So there was a telephone campaign that urged … the day talking about the personalities and people and [John] Sears’ departure, and Governor Reagan asked me to … [Terrance] Cook when Cardinal Cook was alive and Cardinal [John] Kroll in Philadelphia. He was very devoted to the …
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| Bill Clinton Project… to answer all of your very probing questions. Maltese I’m John Maltese, associate professor at the University of … which is well known because it’s the town next to where John McEnroe is from, and we’re all like that. Then we moved … 2004. They just couldn’t believe— They actually looked at John Kerry and did not see some of his campaigning flaws. …
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| Bill Clinton Project… sometimes to sit down with [William] Perry and Shali [John Shalikashvili] to go over the military plans. It still … is a toothache, nevertheless. So, especially when John Deutch came in, we were working on possible ways of … the Samurai warrior, just because I like to. He was the John Belushi of anti-Saddam warriors. Should we go into that? …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… thing. There was a great deal of support for me from the [John] Stennises and [John] McClellans and Jacksons and Nunns of this world, and a … some people from the Hill who were close, for example, to John Dingell. Thompson Could I ask in claiming turf—an …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… years was when the President had to testify in the [John] Poindexter trial. Could you talk about how he prepared … to spend a few days and observe him. Knott Was this Dr. [John] Hutton? Ryan No, Dr. Hutton had been his physician in … and health. He got through [George] Washington and [John] Adams, and I said, Wait a minute. Let’s move up to the …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… of guys sitting around a table saying, Well, how about John Volpe— former Governor of Massachusetts —John, you were active in the campaign, why don’t you take … just one page, usually just one page. This was later on. John Connally was Secretary of Treasury and his Deputy was …
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| George W. Bush Project… it was largely a then young Foreign Service officer named John Bass whom I brought up from the NATO desk to help us … of what we have now in U.S.-Russia relations. My SAIS [Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies] … Pole said this, but one of the Polish Solidarity guys—Adam Michnik—said that the problem is we know how to make …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… I’m also at the University of Virginia. Fortier I’m John Fortier. I’m a political scientist at the American … a distinguished university president from the South; John Dunlop, as his Secretary of Labor who was a labor law … party had been shrinking since the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. People, out of affection for John Kennedy, …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Jim Wolfensohn, I was going to sit on the board of the [John F.] Kennedy Center [for the Performing Arts]. So I came … and Budget people. First it was Ken Apfel, but really John Callahan was an expert in that area. Callahan had been a … I’ll talk to him. What’s the guy’s name? He said, John Callahan. So I called the President in a day and said, I …
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| Bill Clinton Project… the transcriber will try to match up the voices. So John and Jim and Stacie and Dr. Rivlin, if you would— Gilmour I’m John Gilmour. Pfiffner Jim Pfiffner. Rivlin Alice Rivlin … over to take the chairmanship of Ways and Means. Brock Adams became the chairman of Budget. And Brock simply did not …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Governor. Iowa is a tough state. There's a sense in the [John] Kerry campaign that Wisconsin has broken their way. … in Illinois, and I am the Midwest finance chair for John Kerry as well. Riley Very good. That helps to put in … Absolutely. Riley I can't remember the sequence. Wilhelm John Hart is a guy who—I forget who knew him originally—but I …
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| Bill Clinton Project… DCCC. When I was at the Senate Campaign Committee it was John Breaux, who I hope runs for Governor. It was a great … assume it was just a copy—of his transition paper for John Kennedy. I got to go around and talk to people. I … Several years it was Ted Koppel, who loves cartooning. John McCain. I sat next to Warren Buffett one night. I had no …
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| George W. Bush Project… that the United States had been--I don't think we used [John] McCain's word--but feckless in the exercise of American … designed to draw a personal distinction between him and [John] Kerry, and if they campaigned correctly assessed that … W. Bush character for the Presidency better than the John Kerry character. So they seized with glee on moments of …