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… Great Depression and criticizing his efforts to solve the crisis. Beginning in the 1970s, however, Hoover's reputation … never to have grasped the grave threat that the economic crisis represented to the nation—and that solutions to the … situations like the Bonus Army—in ways that built confidence in his leadership. It should also be noted that …
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… rage. Why? Because across nearly every demographic, confidence in our central national ideal—opportunity—has … with millions of Americans because too few people have confidence that America works for them. Many believe the … pursue policy wins that attack the economic opportunity crisis and that are genuinely bipartisan. This will not be …
It is imperative that the next presidential administration dedicate its first year to policies designed to catalyze upward economic mobility for the millions currently left behind.
Presidential Recordings
… -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] -Kissinger’s confidence in progress Forthcoming summit meeting -Anatoliy … F. Dobrynin -Leonid I. Brezhnev -Soviet leadership -Crisis -Potential changes in leadership -Nuclear treaty …
Presidential Biographies
… of Vietnam and Watergate that had shattered public confidence in government, Americans gravitated toward leaders … with high interest rates and inflation; the long hostage crisis with Iran; and the divisions in the Democratic Party, … charm. He criticized Carter daily for the ongoing hostage crisis. Reagan referred to a city in Alabama that had hosted …
Presidential Biographies
… “FDR,” guided America through its greatest domestic crisis, with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign crisis. His presidency—which spanned twelve years—was … cast a pall over its future. Roosevelt's combination of confidence, optimism, and political savvy—all of which came …
Presidential Recordings
… legislation -Congress -Maurice H. Stans -Need for crisis -Compared with postal reform -Need for frankness … Reserve -International monetary situation -Poll -Consumer confidence -University of Michigan -Dyer survey [?] -International monetary situation -Consumer confidence Conv. No. 512-29 (cont.) -Burns’ view -Spending …
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… primaries were held. Option 3—Issue a Pre-primary Vote of Confidence A more feasible option might be to have members … . 8. James L. Sundquist, “The Crisis of Competence in Our National Government,” Political …
Bring peer review back into the presidential nomination process.
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… would require. Through his handling of the Cuban missile crisis two years later, he restored his public standing, but that crisis would not have taken place had he ousted Castro or, … able to articulate that national interest clearly and be confident of our ability to attain victory with the means at …
The next president must weigh carefully the decision to go to war
Presidential Biographies
… discipline in 1993. These efforts fueled a period of confidence in the financial markets. What is unclear is … creative, unilateral executive power in the Mexican peso crisis, when the congressional leadership refused to provide …
Presidential Recordings
… 8, 1972 speech -Consequences of failure -Allies’ loss of confidence -Encouragement of aggression -Europeans’ confidence -US commitment to NATO -Strengthening -President's … foreign policy -Contrast with Kennedy’s foreign policy -Crisis-orientation -Mistakes Cuban Missile Crisis -Kennedy’s …
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… to Senator Richard Russell (D-Georgia), a longtime confidant, he understood the symbolism of “sending the … in the speech (video below). "We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have … Your browser does not support the video tag. THE DOMINICAN CRISIS A few weeks later, on April 28, a crisis broke out in …
US military presence in Vietnam began rapidly intensifying in 1965, as President Johnson sought to quell North Vietnam's support of insurgents in the south
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Presidential Biographies
… to deliver a highly negative speech on the Nation's "crisis of confidence" and opposed the shake-up of the cabinet that … as they arose. The flagging economy, the Iranian hostage crisis, and a litany of other troubles dragged down the …
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… It would be hard to exaggerate the blows to American self-confidence suffered over the dozen years between [John] … and Martin Luther King, the Vietnam failure, the energy crisis, the supposed amorality of [Henry] Kissinger’s foreign … American people; and he has to win the personal trust and confidence of other world leaders by treating them as fellow …
Peter Jay offered remarkably acute observations about an unorthodox president and his times
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Presidential Biographies
… picture of McKinley: Regarding the Spanish-American crisis over Cuba, he is now viewed as a President who tried … astute and patient politician whose political skills and confidence enabled him to make firm decisions even when they …
Oral History Interviews
| 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, …
Oral History Interviews
| 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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… premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, a heightened sense of crisis over Berlin, the building of a wall separating that … changes, even architectural ones, were soon in the offing. Bundy moved physically closer to the president, … he could trust and who could speak to him in utmost confidence. His increasing reliance on Special Counsel Ted …
“Who would want to read a book on disasters?” That was the question John F. Kennedy put to an aide in late 1961 upon hearing that journalists were thinking about writing books on the first year of his presidency. It was a loaded question, as Kennedy was quite familiar with the book market, having written two popular volumes of history, including one on a political and military disaster. And there was no denying that his previous 12 months had been filled with foreign policy missteps—the most notable being the failed invasion at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs.
Presidential Recordings
… 10/06) Conv. No. 558-7 (cont.) -Compared to 1970 -Consumer confidence -Trends -Consumer spending -Money supply -Rate of … monetary affairs -Forthcoming meeting -Leaks -Possible crisis -Possible Administration responses -Closing the gold …