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Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Presidential Biographies
… it was a veritable coronation, presaging the frictionless affairs of the late 20th century. "Silent Cal," as Coolidge … from the Midwest and a strong progressive on the domestic front. When Borah declined the offer, the party … Secretary William G. McAdoo of California--President Wilson's son-in-law--fought Governor Alfred E. Smith of New …
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… in office. Unlike predecessors Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Coolidge believed in a restrained, not … in the face of rapid modernization. The centerpiece of his domestic agenda was tax cutting, and he championed the … devastating Mississippi River flood of 1927. In foreign affairs, Coolidge was neither an internationalist nor an …
In his Inaugural Address, Calvin Coolidge argued for restraint and respect for the Constitution
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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, …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Presidential Biographies
… of Rhode Island, which gave him a free hand in foreign affairs in return for holding back the more progressive items of his domestic agenda. But TR did not refrain from using the … The Democrats nominated the reform governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson, for President and Thomas R. Marshall, the …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Presidential Biographies
… progressive agenda in exchange for a free hand in foreign affairs. He also got the reluctant support of wealthy … improved the lives of American citizens. His "Square Deal" domestic program reflected the progressive call to reform the … Party. Although Roosevelt was defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson, his efforts resulted in the creation of one …
Presidential Biographies
… 1917, after the United States entered the war, President Woodrow Wilson asked Hoover to run the U.S. Food Administration. … trusted by Wilson. Because of Hoover's knowledge of world affairs, Wilson relied him at the Versailles Peace Conference …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs … Deputy Under Secretary for Soviet and East European Affairs at the time that the Soviet Union was coming … see you alone, actually, without anybody from legislative affairs minding me, and frankly without anybody on your staff …
Presidential Speeches
… at the Cabinet table. I urge a new Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. A strong America also depends on its … foundation of our hopes. "I believe in democracy," said Woodrow Wilson, "because it releases the energy of every …
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… the Union nor surrendered their rights to govern their own affairs. In Johnson's mind, the issue of what to do with the … presidency" system of governance was instituted, one which Woodrow Wilson referred to in the 1870s as "Congressional … secretaries. This essay was adapted from Andrew Johnson: Domestic affairs . …
He started as a hero in the North and ended as “the personification of the tyrannical slave power.”