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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Kennedy discusses the Vietnam War and the lessons he learned … This is a May 30th interview at Hyannis Port, with Senator Kennedy, and our broad subject today is the Vietnam conflict, … these kinds of activities. Then my brother, after the 1960 campaign, urged that I go to Africa to find out what was …
Presidential Biographies
… During the Kennedy years, some Americans who had formerly felt the sting … the nation that had incomes below the poverty line. After Kennedy's death, President Lyndon B. Johnson moved to pick up … the laws of the land. Kennedy promised during his election campaign to wipe out “with the stroke of a pen” …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … trips, with reference to civil rights at home and abroad. Kennedy President [Ronald] Reagan was elected. In 1982, we … had made a speech about states’ rights at the start of his campaign in Mississippi, at the place where [Michael] … the press got taken up with this, reporting things like “Kennedy’s trip not going well.” Young Yes, exactly. Kennedy …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Kennedy talks about Irish relations. … Young This is the ninth interview with Senator Kennedy, at his home in Washington. The subject today is … Senate. Kennedy Yes. I went back in 1963 after President Kennedy’s loss. I went to Europe and visited some countries …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Kennedy talks about discrimination against women and the gay … Young This is August 8, 2007, with Senator Kennedy. Kennedy This period of service in the United States … with Adam Clymer, I recalled very clearly during my first campaign going out to talk to a women’s group and talking to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Kennedy discusses his relationship with Nixon and role in … year of ’72. There was a bit of history between the Kennedys and the Nixons. Kennedy Yes. I’ll have to find out about the intersections … Edward M. Kennedy Oral History (05/08/2006) …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Kennedy talks about school desegregation both nationally and … on the Cape, the second in this visit with Senator Kennedy. Today we’re going to talk about school desegregation … green. Young Was “Boston” Ted Kennedy? Kennedy It was the Kennedys, yes. They saw the opening on this thing …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Kennedy further discusses civil rights in broader terms … This is an August 7 interview in Hyannis Port with Senator Kennedy. Mrs. [Victoria Reggie] Kennedy is with us also. In … to participate in the decision-making process: President Kennedy’s call, “Ask not what your country can do for you, …
Presidential Biographies
… willing, and accessible. But where Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is concerned, myth often obscures reality. Though Jacqueline Kennedy's tenure as First Lady is often reduced to her … its artwork and furnishings and was integral in the campaign to acquire the furniture and paintings that had once …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Kennedy We’re talking this morning, Friday, October 14, up on … and 1980 and 1984, with the greatest emphasis on the ’80 campaign. After the ’68 campaign, I ran for assistant … and that I would not run in 1972. We had to follow on the campaigns, which resulted in 1972 with George McGovern being …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Kennedy Light’s on. Young I think it’s going. Mrs. Kennedy Yes, it’s going. Young And then I punched that. This … the last, really three years, and during the course of the campaign and now suddenly it’s all diplomatic. They used the … Edward M. Kennedy Oral History (11/29/2006) …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Young This is an interview at Senator Kennedy’s house on December first, and what we’re going to do … children. Bobby’s children have grown up now. In my campaign this year, I had Joe Kennedy’s two sons as my … Edward M. Kennedy Oral History (12/01/2006) …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Young Well, we have other material coming in that— V. Kennedy Should be in momentarily. Young Momentarily? You want … And in this last Presidential—in the 2004 presidential campaign—it caused enormous pain to a lot of very feeling, … and politics. I sort of started it out by mentioning John Kennedy’s speech. The Senator followed up by talking about …
Presidential Biographies
… America's entry into the First World War, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the nation's first president born in the 20th … His maternal grandfather had been mayor of Boston. Kennedy's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, had made a fortune in … or “PT boat.” Kennedy and his crew participated in the campaign to wrest thousands of islands from Japanese control. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy … Young This is October 8, an interview with Senator Kennedy at the Cape. Vicki Kennedy is in attendance. In … Ireland in 1962. He had gone to Wexford, where the Kennedys were from, and my mother said, “Why didn’t you go … never tell where Grandpa was from because each time he campaigned in different communities in Boston, he’d pretend …
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… a political dynasty with a strong sense of service, Edward Kennedy recounts how his family inspired his own approach to … [Excerpted from chapter 1 of Edward M. Kennedy: An Oral History , by Barbara Perry] T he last of Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s nine children arrived on February 22, when his …
Raised in a political dynasty with a strong sense of service, Edward Kennedy recounts how his family inspired his own approach to public service.
Presidential Biographies
… domestic priorities largely reflected the themes he campaigned on... … in his first term largely reflected the themes he campaigned on: restricting immigration, strengthening public … deployed populist and anti-Wall Street rhetoric on the campaign trail, Trump appointed a cabinet heavy with …
Donald Trump’s domestic priorities largely reflected the themes he campaigned on...
Presidential Biographies
… Mr. Republican. And he is the man who, after the greatest campaign in history, will be Mr. President—Barry Goldwater." Nixon campaigned for Goldwater and other Republicans that fall, … nomination. Nixon had a head start, however, spending 1966 campaigning for Republican candidates and cultivating party …
Although it was an extremely close race with respect to the popular vote, Nixon won the electoral college by a 3 to 2 margin.
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… Proposals for removing U.S. troops from Vietnam put Kennedy's top advisors at odds with one another. … 80 minutes before they were to meet with President John F. Kennedy. Fifteen months of planning to remove U.S. troops from Vietnam thus made its way to Kennedy’s desk as a result of Taylor’s pique and the …
Proposals for removing U.S. troops from Vietnam put Kennedy's top advisors at odds with one another.
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… plays a leading role in the new documentary about the Kennedy family … Perry vividly remembers her first encounter with John F. Kennedy. "In October 1960 my mother loaded me and my two … to downtown Louisville, Kentucky, to attend a presidential campaign rally and see her new political hero—Senator John F. …
The Miller Center's Barbara Perry plays a leading role in the new documentary about the Kennedy family