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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Research; Massachusetts Deputy Health Commissioner; President, Pennsylvania Health Care Association … Fein who was a pretty liberal health economics professor. He vaguely knew Kennedy. I needed to do an internship, so I … policy issues. Number one, [Jimmy] Carter was the new President, and I was assigned all mental health issues. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the best place to start would be if you could just tell us how you first met Senator Kennedy and how you came to hold … word of mouth heard of the position and was lucky that he—from what I understood in the interview—he was looking for …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… his roles and duties on Edward Kennedy’s staff, 1987–97. He provides insight as to the Senator’s relationship with … through the events during Donovan’s tenure on the staff. He also discusses Kennedy’s extensive and well-respected … I first met Senator Kennedy when I was in college and he came to speak for the New Hampshire Democrats. This was …
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… President Trump isn't the first in his position to politicize … the federal mail system to advance his own political aims, he would not be the first president to do so. Indeed the best example of how the mails … Donald Trump isn't the first president to politicize the U.S. Postal Service, writes …
President Trump isn't the first in his position to politicize the U.S. Postal Service.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Procedures, which no one had ever heard of. My guess is he’s trying to think, How am I going to build this up? What does this subcommittee …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy’s views of the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton Presidencies, the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections, and … your work on that led into the '94 Senate campaign. When did you get called in, and for what purpose? Shrum I first … to give a speech at the Kennedy School. Everybody said he gave a speech where he apologized. Actually, it was two …
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… A recent Washington symposium celebrated President Harry Truman’s 1948 signing of Executive Order … knew that Congress’s southern Democrats would not act, and he ignored his advisors who predicted a catastrophic response … Presidents versus the Supreme Court …
Protecting each branch’s constitutional role preserves checks in the short run and balance in the long term, writes Barbara A. Perry.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… would be to simply ask you to tell us a little bit about how you came into politics and how you first met Senator … Washington was governed by a commission appointed by the President of the United States. We had no mayor and no … Kennedy I really met was the President, Jack Kennedy. He and I were privileged to receive two of the outstanding …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… my best recollection is that somewhere in the 1960s I did meet Robert Kennedy. I didn’t see a lot of him, but I … Yes. Knott Did Robert Kennedy consult with you at all when he was considering making this run for the Presidency? …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… perhaps the best place to start would be to simply ask you how you came to work for Senator Kennedy. Blattner I came to … for whom Carey Parker clerked, so I sent Carey a note. He called me up, and that’s essentially how I came on board. … Knott Do you recall your first meeting with the Senator? Did he interview you for the position? Blattner The first …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Virginia. Well, why don’t we start at the beginning? When did you first meet Ted Kennedy? Vargo I didn’t meet him until … Smith. Nancy left first when [Michael] Dukakis ran for President, and then she came back and left again with the … to be one foreign policy person. Gare had made it clear he was going to look for something else, so they took that …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Gore and advising the campaigns of both Kennedy and Gore. He also touches on Supreme Court nominations, including … Kenneth Feinberg was working for the Senator at the time. He was either working for him or was working as a facilitator …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… ask about him, one word that comes to mind is thoughtful. He was so thoughtful, always calling people to see how they were, to congratulate them, wish them well, or if …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Washington about the education job I had heard of. This is how completely unwired-in I was. I got Nick Littlefield’s … an education job open.” Nick said, “Fax me a résumé,” and he clicked down the phone. So I faxed Nick a résumé, this guy … prosecutor, and she’ll come down and do education. Little did he know that I was complete bleeding heart and I hated …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… on February 2, 2009. Let’s start at the beginning. When did you first meet [Edward] Kennedy and how did you come to work for him? Schneider I came to … with the Senator. When I interviewed with Ted Kennedy, he said, If you come, I’d like you to do some work on Latin …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Senate campaign in 1962 and his opponents in that race. He also discusses the 1964 Presidential campaign. … a close friend of Robert Kennedy’s. Lodge I’ll tell you how I met Bobby because it was interesting. I was in the … One day in 1954 I interviewed the Secretary of Labor when he came to Boston, James P. Mitchell. I asked him 96 …
Presidential Biographies
… During James K. Polk's presidency, foreign policy revolved around the U.S. desire … joint resolution, negotiations, purchase, or war, President Polk by the end of his term intended for the United … for a treaty. Tyler sent Congress a resolution because he knew that the two-thirds vote in the Senate was not to be …
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… stage during those first 12 months than for any other president in American history. … stage during those first 12 months than for any other president in American history. A democratic tsunami … without an ensuing great power war. Never before, he need not have added, had nuclear weapons been involved. …
The first year of the first Bush administration demonstrates that less can be more. More happened on the international stage during those first 12 months than for any other president in American history.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Boies recounts how he came to be associated with Edward Kennedy through work on … 1978, whether you’d had any contact with the family. You did work, I think, as a younger man, in the Robert Kennedy … point, needed to return to Harvard to maintain his tenure. He was leaving. I’m not 100 percent sure that was the reason …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… even all of the warts. Heininger And that’s what he wants. Fein I don’t know how we first came to meet. I had worked at the Council of Economic Advisers, but it’s a little removed from the President of the United States—that is as a staff member. Lee …