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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 …
Presidential Speeches
… President Hayes vetoes a version of the appropriations bill … and State officers and as to the choice of electors of President and Vice-President of the United States. They attracted the attention …
Presidential Speeches
… President Eisenhower begins his State of the Union Address by … Congress. Note: This is the text of the document which the President signed and transmitted to the Senate and the House …
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
… for labor, bad for management, and bad for the Nation. The President asserts that the bill's restrictions on workers go … would be free to strike, and it would be mandatory for the President to refer the whole matter to Congress, even if …
Presidential Speeches
… In his State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden focuses on the improving US economy and … Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of …
Presidential Speeches
… 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 …
Presidential Speeches
… 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 …
Presidential Speeches
… 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… 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, …
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 …
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 …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of discussion on how to craft those national frameworks. President [George H. W.] Bush set up a commission also, … sounds plausible—said, "Within the first 100 days of my Presidency we'll submit a healthcare bill." He made that … American Free Trade Agreement] came up, and the Vice President's reinventing government initiative. They were …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that when it came time for the nomination speech for Vice President, we had it all set up. We had signs printed, and … committee, we found out later—inciting someone to take the President’s life. This was on a Friday morning. We flew out …
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 …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… campaign staff were holdovers from his brother’s, from the President’s administration, and Ted was really of a different … a great advisor to President [Harry] Truman and many other Presidents—Clark Clifford. He used to do some great …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… compared with what’s written about the Court or about the Presidency or about the House of Representatives. Because we were doing oral histories of the various Presidencies and he liked the way we did it, he chose us to … after tragedy. He was sitting in the chair of the Senate presiding over it when the news came that his great brother, …
Presidential Speeches
… From the Rose Garden, President Bush announces a new initiative to combat the …