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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… break with [William H.] Taft in 1912, which allowed Woodrow Wilson to become a minority President of the United … for America. Young And there was Ted trying to talk about domestic— Vanden Heuvel It was almost unpatriotic to attack … that they could win the election if they kept the focus on domestic issues. They didn’t want to give the Republicans the …
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| George W. Bush Project… Director of the Domestic Policy Council … his early relationship with Bush, and his time on the Domestic Policy Council in the final years of the Bush Presidency, with particular focus on Veterans Affairs, stem cells, immigration reform, the financial … me up to say, “Would you be interested in serving as the Domestic Policy Advisor to the President?” I wasn’t even …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… campaign it was not just Vietnam but it was also on the domestic front, what was happening.He made that a point— … the lesson of Theodore Roosevelt and [William] Taft and [Woodrow] Wilson in 1912. There were the very personal considerations, …
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| George W. Bush Project… and private practice positions. I had graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, spent a year at Harvard Law School, and …
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| Bill Clinton Project… John Hilley: Director of Legislative Affairs; Lawrence Stein: Director of Legislative Affairs … John Hilley and Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, Lawrence Stein, recall White House relations with … him. Now I’m at Capital One as a vice president for policy affairs. Jones Could I ask a question about the career path …
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| Bill Clinton Project… in the daytime and before C-SPAN [cable-satellite public affairs network]. So he had never spoken to a national … the literary people. Nelson Who are interested in public affairs but have chosen to live in Baltimore instead of … words in President Kennedy’s inaugural were about world affairs, not about domestic problems. They actually just had …
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| George W. Bush Project… Margaret Spellings: Director of the Domestic Policy Council; Secretary of Education Holly … and Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education … he had a lot more to learn than in this arena. All the domestic stuff, the criminal justice, we had our own …
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| George W. Bush Project… in what was going on, somewhat more about international affairs than domestic matters so we talked a lot about the years of Nixon … I applied. I didn’t have any background in Latin American affairs, but I met different people at CSIS, including Fred …
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| George W. Bush Project… with him because I was his lead for HIV globally and domestically. Riley Right. Dybul I was doing work in Africa … from NSC [National Security Council] and Jay from the Domestic Policy Council. Riley Right. Dybul Gary was really …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… and Panama. Various other issues, such as the Bert Lance affair, Carter's relations with the press, and public … sense attractive, but was bound to be unsuccessful. On domestic policies, he had a much greater feel, but once … somewhere in the fall of 1977, just after the Bert Lance affair, which is very important in terms of the effectiveness …
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| George W. Bush Project… in no particular order, the Office of Political Affairs, OPL [Office of Public Liaison]. The injunction from … be in a position where you’re able to opine on all things domestic and on some things foreign, some things …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… President Reagan had been thrown off his horse down at the Wilson Ranch in and had had a period of unconsciousness. It … together and he had everybody from the librarian of the Woodrow Wilson, who has a tracheostomy, but he would come to these …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Domestic Policy Advisor to the Clinton Transition, Founder … go 19 sections into Kennedy’s platform before you get to a domestic issue—think about a Democratic Party that would do … he said, No urban policy. Let me run my city. So when I’m Domestic Policy Advisor in the transition, I get this …
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| George W. Bush Project… his time as White House director of legislative affairs for the last year of George H. W. Bush’s term; the … in general. My father was deeply enmeshed in international affairs and politics generally, although he didn't play in … Perry What was your major? Bolten Princeton has the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, …
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| George W. Bush Project… speaker. He’s writing a book at this time about foreign affairs and the Constitution. He taught a class, which is … a lot more about that in law school than the foreign affairs part. The foreign affairs I think I learned it all in college and then foreign …
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| Bill Clinton Project… House gets more and more operational, whether it’s in domestic policy or whatever. That’s really off-putting, but … I had a very strong Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Barbara Larkin. We spent a lot of time together and … the whole human rights approach to it. It went back to a Woodrow Wilson kind of thing, but a different approach. He …
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| George W. Bush Project… to put it, largely got going by people who were focused on domestic policy. To tell you the truth, I was oblivious to … My interest from high school forward was in international affairs and world history, not domestic policy, and I don't …
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| Bill Clinton Project… got calls from the fellow who handled their congressional affairs, the little guy from—I’ll think of his name, I can’t … a U.S. Senator usually had two aides, one covering foreign affairs and defense and one covering domestic issues and financial issues. So in Kuchel’s office …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… counsel and congressional investigations into the affair, and his duties as the chief legal advisor to … Yes, but basically on his personal ethics, financial affairs, his investments, his Ethics in Government Act … about Reagan, maybe his intelligence or his grasp of world affairs. Can you add any general insights or maybe describe …
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| Bill Clinton Project… a way to do this in a way that dealt with a very complex domestic political situation and to use it to build the … better at turning those personal skills. You can compare [Woodrow] Wilson at Versailles for example. Clinton has a very …