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… Tariff raises duties prohibitively high on many imports. President Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff act on June 17 … upon which duties will prove to be too low. Certainly no President, with his other duties, can pretend to make that … the task of adjustment was imposed directly upon the President, and the limitations in the law which circumscribed …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to meet with various governments regarding memorials to President [John F.] Kennedy, and Bobby suggested that I go … was to Dublin, where we arrived on the anniversary of the President’s birthday, May 29. There were literally thousands … death. Young Kathleen [Kennedy]. Vanden Heuvel He was presiding over the Senate when the word came that the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… time? Hanan At the time, no. It was later that I met the President, and I never really knew the President. I had been … and Hamilton Jordan. When he was making the run for the Presidency, it was, Jimmy Who ? My impression is he studied …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Another person that I thought might be considered for the Presidency was Bill Moyers. I had lunch with Bill Moyers in … him national stature and moved him forward. After he was President, I believe the Congress had voted a medal to Robert … That was a trauma of enormous consequence to Teddy. The President’s death was of course a terrible thing, but he at …
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… President Reagan speaks of specific freedoms in the United … President Reagan: Thank you, Rector Logunov, and I want to … freedom of religion. Go into any courtroom, and there will preside an independent judge, beholden to no government …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to the House of Representatives in 1960. That was the year President [John F.] Kennedy was elected, and so of course, as President Kennedy was elected, the spotlight turned on the … best job in the United States with the exception of the Presidency, and I think that may be true. Martin I would …
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… The President stresses the urgency of responding to the current … Nation, and of the world, from the point of view of the Presidency. You, more than you realize, have been giving me a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to Boston and got him tickets to a Red Sox game. Afghan President [Hamid] Karzai also was in Boston speaking, the … was in town, and the Senator got him invited to meet President Karzai while he was in Boston, which speaks to … General. In that meeting we spent more time talking about President [John F.] Kennedy than anything else, which is a …
Presidential Speeches
… Americans for increased support for Great Britain. The President also seeks to reassure the public of America's … in this mad world of ours. It is not necessary that I, the President ask the American people to pray in behalf of such a …
Presidential Speeches
… In this address, President Reagan speaks about the Tax Equity and Fiscal … or philosophy on the part of this administration or this President. Now, you may have heard that some special … isn't limited to the budget cuts and tax policy. Vice President Bush heads up a task force that's been reviewing …
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… Miller Center—a non-partisan institute specializing in the presidency and public policy—we speak in opposition to the … Center —a non-partisan institute specializing in the presidency and public policy—we speak in opposition to the … alumni who have served under Republican and Democratic presidents. We send our condolences, thoughts, and prayers to …
On behalf of the Governing Council of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center—a non-partisan institute specializing in the presidency and public policy—we speak in opposition to the ugly incidents of racism, hate, and violence that assaulted Charlottesville and the University.
Presidential Speeches
… the German people, and survivors of the Holocaust, President Ronald Reagan remembers those who were lost, the … leads us, if we're prepared to trust it, toward what our President Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. And …
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… From the Rose Garden, President Bush announces a new initiative to combat the …
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… by the time he’s thirty. And then, he’s going to be president.” They married in 1966. Their son Beau was born in … with the law, provoking a scandal during his father’s presidency. After a plea deal collapsed in summer 2023, a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… some of them. And I was, and my family was, very much for President Truman, but of course, we didn’t think he was going … not so nice because—I guess it was in the campaign for the Presidency. I’m trying to remember who, in New York State, …
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… In Davos, Switzerland, President Trump addresses the World Economic Forum, a … PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you, Klaus, very much. It’s a … your past have been most useful in preparing you for the presidency? PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, being a businessman has …
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… Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861, and July of that same year, President Lincoln took a number of actions in response to … of the people or any of their rights. Of all that which a President might constitutionally and justifiably do in such a … is scarcely one from which there could not be selected a President, a Cabinet, a Congress, and perhaps a court, …
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… From the White House library, President Bush discusses his proposed strategy changes in the …
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… the talks may continue to move forward successfully. The President cautions that the talks require more time and … United States Government, on the prospects for peace. The President also briefed our congressional leaders and all of … fail. Seven months ago I said that I would not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… between 1989 and 1994, from the beginning of the President [George H.W.] Bush Administration, through the … he? Littlefield Well, one might say the [Ronald] Reagan Presidency, when they lost the majority in the Senate back in … former chairman of the Appropriations Committee and had presided over the appropriations of funds in ’94, was now …