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Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… the administration, particularly Reagan's inability to get past the event. He also examines key foreign policy events of the 1987-88 period; specifically, the Persian Gulf … sorry, but it didn’t help much at the time. Zelikow In the past you’ve shared recollections of your experiences with the …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… the Republican Party's foreign policy apparatus over the past forty years. The first third of the interview focuses … the first year of the Reagan administration, and the major events occurring during this time, including the … he’s going back to the Oval Office through the colonnade, past the Rose Garden. I’m walking about five feet behind him …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with national and Massachusetts press outlets through the events during Donovan’s tenure on the staff. He also … which would have been an election year. He came to an event and I just happened to be at the event. I shook his … they started covering the--I'm saying that there were two events that kind of came together by '94. In '91, this was a …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… on his early relationship with Kennedy, as well as past efforts to pass universal healthcare legislation. He … of Kennedy's absence from the healthcare process over the past year. How would the bill have been different coming out … to get some kind of agreement, but then just the press of events and labor opposition, thinking they'd be able to get …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Mack McLarty touches on a number of events he witnessed and participated in as Clinton's Chief of … the Vietnam conflict sank President Johnson. So you’ve had events cut both ways. Governing in this eight year period, … he doesn’t measure success much more than these grander events and more traditional measurements. I think that’s …
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| Bill Clinton Project… I did it because I knew how to do it, I had done it in the past, and I knew there was no one in that campaign who could … anyone else you've spoken to has described either of those events. I was sleeping that morning so I can't describe it … before national audiences at a CNN [Cable News Network] event. It happened the day of my 50th birthday. We have the …
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| Bill Clinton Project… as well as Vice President Al Gore. Stern also recalls key events during this period including his role in investigating … the course of that, I got to know a lot of people. In any event, I was very interested in Clinton and in the campaign. … get them working so that the President has a schedule, has events, has a briefing book. The briefing book has to come …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Brandenburg Gate. He tells of Reagan's reactions to major events such as the Challenger disaster and the Iran-Contra … did. He would go to college campuses; he’d go to political events. There were organizations, it could have been the … 18—I’m trying to think what amendment that was—but in any event, I could vote for the first time in the ’72 election. I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the go-to person for religious appearances, or speaking at events where it involves some sort of spiritual component. … in advance. In addition there was: How do you cater an event? How do you create the sign and the banner for the … was just that kind of relationship. Then, as I said, this past Christmas, he said, "I miss you. You have to come see me …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… She begins with the California years, discussing the key events of his governorship, major policy issues, staff, and … on (China, Moscow), and her observations on the major events of the presidency (Grenada, Lebanon, Challenger … much in overseeing the daily routine, the schedule, the events the Governor was involved in. I’m trying to picture …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… his frequent interaction with President Reagan. The key events of this period are discussed in detail, including the … and practicing law afterwards. I’d been to a few of his events earlier in the year in 1980 when he was in the … say, You’re my favorite President. Would you come to my event? They were very helpful in processing all of those …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… president in 1988, relations with the Soviet Union, and events in Panama. He also talks about relationships within … little unusual, but it’s a very tight White House. In any event, we ran into each other all the time, but the thing … time for him to leave. It sounds very familiar to current events. It was time for him to leave, and we couldn’t cut the …
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| George W. Bush Project… his role in the George W. Bush White House, the urgency of events taking over plans, and the management of dual Chief of … at the arc of these things, you very clearly saw that events really do intrude, as somebody once said. Milkis We … it, and remember everything that you had written in months past when you had a meeting about it. Riley I was going to …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… with the White House staff), and highlighting the key events of this period (Grenada, Falklands War, Central … if you had any recollections of that fairly brief event that put Ronald Reagan in the presidential picture. … I think this is so serious, there’s been a series of such events that I talked to the President and suggested that we …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… staff, the influence of the First Lady, and the major events of his first six years. As Reagan's strongest ally in … the potential to go all the way ? Was there one particular event or anything? Laxalt Well, when I was Governor with him … days. We’d see one another. We had various political events, the four of us would very often join together for …
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| Bill Clinton Project… different circumstances. But watching that is a remarkable event. I went off to college in Vermont at Middlebury, became … to be structured. Here's how we're going to do advance events, and here are the people. A little bit of a school, a … was toast. Friendly Was dead. Pfiffner Very seldom in the past have losers in New Hampshire gone out and taken it. …
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| George W. Bush Project… George W. Bush White House as press secretary. Issues and events Fleischer discusses include campaigning with Bush and … there, too, but I don't want to dwell too much on the past. Riley It's important for us to know who the people are … I traveled, and then I'd go to the debates, the major events, the events that would draw a lot of the media, the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… because he had already been there so many times in his past career. I slowly began to get a sense of him, which … just like a bunch of guys sitting around after some sports event or some meeting. I really cannot remember the first … I had met the people who had been in John Kennedy’s past. There was an undertaker from Lynn named [Pasquale] …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… foreign policy breakfast), his involvement with policy and events (hostage crisis, SALT II, Billy Carter), and his … at that point it never would have happened. But in any event, I was really not either a Democratic insider in the … whether it was actually carried through because of events is another question. And all Presidents seem to have …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… with the First Lady. He also discusses many of the key events that occurred during his service, including the … searching to try to help him with those memories of his past, as he was losing his ability to remember. Also, as you … big buddy. I was producing for them. Hargrove Were these events related to issues, or just events? Deaver Anything. We …