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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Lott talks about what it was like to serve in the Senate with Edward Kennedy, … Tell me about how you first met Senator Kennedy. What were your initial impressions of him? Lott I came to …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Jimmy Carter and Kennedy. Feinberg concludes by discussing what it was like to work with Kennedy. … or did I still have public-interest law in mind? And what about the idea of doing criminal justice policy work for … to come down and interview about the possibility of the job. With that intro, I went down and met with Tom Susman, …
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| Bill Clinton Project… promoted to Staff Secretary in 1995. Stern talks about his job responsibilities, including preparing briefing materials … the proceedings. You are the only person who may report on what happens here until you've had a chance to review the … book for the debate prep. At that point, I was back in my job in the Senate, but on the side I would do preparation for …
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| George W. Bush Project… currency issues; China; the Federal Reserve; the 2003 Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (tax cuts); … Iraq reconstruction; Snow’s travel and speaking schedule; Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (tax cuts); and … What is the other side of that? How many people don’t get jobs because you raise minimum wages? You know, extending …
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| George W. Bush Project… and his role on the National Economic Council; the 2003 Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (tax cuts); … smart and talented either worked in business or academics. What did I know? So that started to attract me more toward … Bill was the staff director, and most of us thought of our jobs as helping Bill help Senator Domenici. I mean Bill is …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… care coverage; the deficit; Vice President Dan Quayle; job training; foster care; veteran affairs; the White House … September 2, 1999 Young We’re here to try to think about what people in the future after George Bush and his … through there, Tom— Scully You’ve done a pretty good job with the press accounts. Young Well, it’s a sifting, just …
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| Bill Clinton Project… We were going to get together and retreat, and figure out what we could do, if anything, to affect the outcome. Every … were they skeptical of Clinton? Did you have a big sales job with that community? Segal I think I made it clear right …
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| George W. Bush Project… Hamid Karzai; Pakistan; and India. Khalilzad talks about what changed in Iraq from 2002 to his time as ambassador in … set of circumstances, although we were poor. Perry What prompted you to come to the United States? Was it your …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… the department, including changes to OSHA regulations, a jobs program, and hiring of women and minorities. Marshall … into it and we changed it very substantially. I don’t know what we would have done if he hadn’t told us to do it. Young … in, in terms of things that we ought to do, was the jobs program. I think you’ll recall that unemployment had …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… does not like politicians and makes his decisions based on what is right, not what is politically expedient. Lance admits that during his … Carter at that particular time. I knew of him through what had been in the press, where there had been speculation … and he was a good Governor of Georgia and had done a good job. Still, I voted for Jimmy Carter, I supported him, but I …
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| George W. Bush Project… within the White House. Fleischer also describes what a typical day serving as White House press secretary is … I thought, Why? We don't do bad things around the world. What's wrong? We've helped a lot of people . And it got to …
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| George W. Bush Project… and presidential transitions. She discusses job-creation measures, reforming regulations like ergonomics and overtime pay, department personnel, job training and partnerships, worker disability, and her … one in political science. Chao They did a wonderful job, so please let them know how appreciative we are. Perry I …
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| Bill Clinton Project… as the presidential aide. Goodin talks about his job duties, guiding Clinton through his day, the president's … this material, as well as similar materials, to find out what the Clinton Presidency truly was like. You have a view … on trying to figure out ways to do this. I looked for a job on Capitol Hill—I graduated in 1990, and tended bar to …
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| Bill Clinton Project… to Clinton, as much as a supporter. Riley His name is what? Engskov Si Bigham. Oddly, he ended up—Clinton ended up … I didn’t know him well, but I knew him. Once I had that job later in my career, working with him every day as …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… describes Carter's management and decision-making style, what role his faith and his reputation as a Washington … there, and you didn’t have to be too smart to figure out what was wrong. They were starving their farming business … drove him out. Thompson Does the government do a better job than I felt we did [at the Rockefeller Foundation]? I …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… career as a Foreign Service Officer, where he recounts his job at the U.S. Embassy in Congo. The discussion then jumps … afterwards. That was a more informal type of oral history. What we are doing now for the Reagan presidency (and the Bush … he was being sent to the Katanga— Zelikow What was your job at the Embassy? Carlucci I was second secretary. I was a …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… guess, that it was sometime in the very early ’70s. What year was he elected? Knott Sixty-two. Lichtman … he knows a fair amount. He’s not using you to tell him what’s in that briefing book. He’s looked at that briefing …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… the domestic policy staff, the "malaise" speech, and what a second Carter term would have looked like — are … an unknown situation. It was difficult trying to find out what was happening. Even Mr. [Jack H.] Watson was so busy … reorganization and management responsibilities of OMB. My job was to do the overall managing of the agency, relate to …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… and Watson. The remainder of the interview touches on what McDonald calls the "four presidencies," or four phases … Young This is the second in what we hope will be an extensive series of visits from …
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| Bill Clinton Project… director the following year. Sosnik talks about his job responsibilities, including his role in shaping Clinton's … historical record. Nobody at the table is free to repeat what is said in the room except you. We've all taken the … party in the mid-'70s.) They didn't even know what their job was. It took them something like a year, about nine …