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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… what had happened was that [Ronald] Reagan had been the President for eight years, and the whole mantra there was … that we enacted during the first two years of the Clinton Presidency. There was another education act that came along …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and a Democratic Party that was utterly demoralized and a President who really wasn’t sure what to do. All the tea … but it turned out it was going to be upstairs in the President’s residence. So we went through the West Wing, … respect for the President and the awe he has for the Presidency. He wasn’t going to say, “Are you saying you’re …
Presidential Speeches
… 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, …
Presidential Speeches
… From the White House library, President Bush discusses his proposed strategy changes in the …
Presidential Speeches
… 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… not progress. I became more and more of the opinion that President Reagan either didn’t get it or was not being well … to have to be a two-House solution and a signature by President Reagan, who was not maybe on board. I had allies on … in this two-year period of ’85 and ’86, I was asked by President Reagan to go to the Philippines to lead a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… nephew of the Speaker of the House and the brother of the President. If that’s not enough for you, on the other side we … obviously. I mean, his chances for the Presidency ended in 1969. There was no question; that’s the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… want to see him. I can’t even remember all of them. The President of Armenia came to town, so, “Let’s see if Kennedy … out loud, “Oh gosh, it was so great when Jack was President. Jack [John F. Kennedy] used to have parties, and … what it was like to be there when his brother was President of the United States. Young He can give you the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… my love for politics brought me to Washington. I attended President [John F.] Kennedy’s inauguration. I worked for the … received that, along with some yellow legal pads with the President’s doodles. It also included notes from the last … R-Massachusetts. The Senator, as a freshman, had to preside over the Senate. They were not allowed to speak, …
Presidential Speeches
… towns along the path of the railroad. In this speech, the President makes remarks to a crowd in Trenton, Missouri, from … first stop in Missouri he was going to have to present the President of the United States, although so far as Missouri …
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… President Kennedy suffered from extraordinarily poor health …
President Kennedy suffered from extraordinarily poor health throughout his life and was read the last rites by a Catholic priest twice before he had reached the age of 30.
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… hours, and reviewing the national antitrust policy. The President ends by reassuring Americans about the threat of … I hope to pay my annual visit to the Southeast. For a President especially it is a duty to think in national terms. … this year but of future years, when someone else will be President. He must look beyond the average of the prosperity …
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… The President outlines the challenges America faces in the world, … Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, members of the 96th Congress, fellow … away from confrontation. And in the 1970s three American Presidents negotiated with the Soviet leaders in attempts to …
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… parties go about seeking their respective candidates for president in response to the significant transformations the … parties go about seeking their respective candidates for president in response to the significant transformations the …
The Miller Center organized a commission to examine every facet of the process by which our two major political parties go about seeking their respective candidates for president in response to the significant transformations the presidential nominating process has undergone since 1960.
Presidential Speeches
… President Nixon urges Congress to continue the progress of … Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, my colleagues in the Congress, our distinguished … put forward the most extensive program ever proposed by a President of the United States to expand the nation's parks, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Washington was governed by a commission appointed by the President of the United States. We had no mayor and no … not many, because to me, that’s just an extension of the Presidency. He’s going to do what the President wants him to … would never want to vote for anything, but it was the President’s man, that was OK. But not in the Judiciary. And …
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… in 2011. From 1994 to 1998, Baer served as assistant to President Bill Clinton and White House director of … partner at Winston and Strawn LLP. Broas was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the … tackle the opioid crisis and gang crime. Comstock is the president of the U.S. Association of Former Members of …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… [James] Murray-[Robert] Wagner-[John] Dingell [Sr.] bill. President [Harry] Truman tried very hard to achieve passage … the course of the years that I was on the Hill, I had two Presidents to deal with—first Richard Nixon and then Gerald … haunted by demons—demons which ultimately destroyed his Presidency. One of the demons that I believe haunted …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and the Ambassador Hotel. It was a great honor to witness President Kennedy’s nomination. Heininger And you were only … and was very excited that I lived in a city that had two Presidents: John Adams and John Quincy Adams. We loved living … in 1963, where I was. As a freshman Senator, he would preside over the Senate. President Kennedy wanted the Cape …