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| Jimmy Carter Project… groups; and the 1980 Democratic Convention and the "crisis of confidence" speech. They analyze Carter’s management style; …
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| Bill Clinton Project… and members of Congress; the Asian financial crisis and Thailand; the North American Free Trade Agreement … from now, they’ll be writing about the Asian financial crisis, the Mexican financial crisis, the spectacular takeoff … true or accurate, but they were disturbing to a sense of confidence. I remember it was just before the summit and the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the whole thing, comes out with, We face a health care crisis in this country, and if we do not take action rapidly, … We face a massive— and those were the words— health care crisis unless we act. This is the guy who, six months earlier, had denounced the idea of there being a crisis. Heininger What did he see as the crisis? Fine He saw …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… end on Eastern Europe and Latin America, and the political crisis in the Philippines. … the comment by the Soviet official after the Cuban missile crisis to the American official, “You will never put us in … conflict, than others. In fact, I think we were pretty confident that he’d fail. So, we thought, the question was, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… his humility, he was an arrogant man. He had supreme self-confidence. He was a religious man who got significant … was at an all-time low in many ways. The Iranian hostage crisis had not yet begun, but the feeling of a failed … Young In the beginning— Vanden Heuvel It made him a crisis leader. Young That’s right. Vanden Heuvel It made him …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… opportunity to edit your remarks that they will remain in confidence, so any stipulations you put on this transcript we … a whole really weren’t reconciled to JFK until the missile crisis, the great success of the missile crisis, and then … committee. So whatever was on them, I think he had confidence in me and in the screening committee. But there …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the Energy Mobilization Board and dealing with the energy crisis. I basically became a front-office person. I did some … of the AIDS [Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome] crisis, which pretty much arises the following year. Saris … who I think crossed the line into actually maybe being a confidant, and I had the impression that Larry was. I’m …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of a United States Senator, I would argue—and I have full confidence in this—that Senator Kennedy was a special case. … in ’71. Heininger Did Larry work at all on the health-crisis field hearings in ’71? Goldman I don’t believe so. I … been through had he not been a wonderful optimist. He had confidence in his own commitment to the issue, and I am sure …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… had a conversation about what to cover in this series of interviews and how, and now we’ll start. Littlefield I’m … we did a tour of the country to look into the healthcare crisis. This was a big production. His brother, Robert … Senate. Littlefield In the beginning. I began to get more confidence in my relationship with him as time went on. It …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Clinton made a call, a direct call to me. At that time a crisis was looming very large because the dollar reserves remained only 3.9 billion dollars. So the Korean crisis might affect the world economy. It was a crisis. … have to pursue dialogue to resolve the crisis, and we are confident to do so. We also said that North Korea really …
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| Gerald Ford Project… or not the Congress felt they were adequately informed in crisis management, so to speak, in the evacuation of Da Nang … that the executive branch would receive during periods of crisis to know what was developing on the international scene … quite good job however in this regard—that we do have this crisis, it’s a difficult problem, and we’ve got to address …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the papers, I’m sure. I gave him a long memo on the energy crisis, which was, at that point, eight or nine proposals. It … Heininger So the first year you were there, the energy crisis blew up. Hunter I can’t remember exactly what came up … stop, but you knew what the rest of the sentence was. I’m confident the reason was that he was the seventh kid. He …
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| George W. Bush Project… for what became the later stuff on the Cuban missile crisis, but they wanted to pilot that technique, the method. … it out, to debates over what to do in North Korea in the crisis over their nuclear program. In each of those times, … they said the morale was much higher, much more confident. So those who experienced both in the Clinton years …
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| George W. Bush Project… Henry Paulson as Treasury Secretary and the 2008 financial crisis … Bolten I knew we would be talking about the financial crisis today, and whatever else you want to talk about. Riley … was public facing; it's more hortatory, more a sense of confidence in the stewardship of the largest economy in the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… et cetera, the staffing process during the Cuban missile crisis—in a process like that, that’s not seat-of-the-pants, … But Kennedy isn’t like that. For Carter, the hostage crisis really screwed up that last year in a lot of respects. … No, not quite. The wall is down. The Baltics are still a crisis. We were in the Kremlin with [Mikhail] Gorbachev, and …
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| George W. Bush Project… Participants: Russell Riley, University of Virginia, Interview Team Chair Barbara Perry, University of Virginia Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia Stephen Long, University of Richmond Khalilzad … the second plane had hit the tower. There was an immediate crisis atmosphere, and Condi was rushed out. Clarke said, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… months so it would have been too soon to make any kind of confident judgment on that. The sense I had was more as a … of fronts. One was, he was at a point where he was quite confident of his position and ability to talk without … in retrospect it had to be this way—they were just not confident of his ability to sustain a conversation, so he …
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| George W. Bush Project… and Ben Bernanke. Paulson moves on to the financial crisis by talking about mortgages and working with Rep. … industry and foreclosures, the bond market, the auto crisis, effectively communicating the solutions to the crisis to the general public, working with executives on Wall …
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| George W. Bush Project… made clear what the job required was good judgment and the confidence of both the Attorney General and the FBI Director … I was going to help the Attorney General. She was in a crisis. I never hesitated, never even thought about any of … successful changes then inspired people and gave them confidence later when I asked them to do bigger, harder, more …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… as anything else we had those people available that we had confidence in. Young The Vice President was given, after this … then in his early 30s, as you know. He gained a lot of confidence in himself during the next couple of decades. I … be threatened. Here was a man in Carter who was a very confident individual. You didn’t have to worry that—it was …