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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… while Senator Kennedy was running for the nomination for President against Jimmy Carter, which confounded it … a bit to do with the Youth Act. Bob also was the first president of Achieve, Inc., which is a Governors’ and …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and the son of Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate for President. Very few people know that young Evan Thomas is the … a really insightful little book called, Twilight of the Presidency . There is a chapter in there on the Palace Guard, … there when he should have been around there. He wasn't presiding and was not making any effort. Lyndon's …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… while I was at Harvard. I was a freshman the year President [John F.] Kennedy was elected, and I was a senior … which was the beginning of the George Herbert Walker Bush Presidency. He had talked about a “kinder and gentler” …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… about it, nothing. "Tell me about Ireland." We had our Presidency in 1990 here and his wife got sick. I had the … up. I brought it forward, in fact. I had it during our Presidency and the words "join the EMS [European Monetary …
Presidential Speeches
… President Donald Trump begins his press conference discussing … that passed for decades and decades and decades, and no President has ever been able to do it. And we got it done so … I hope you didn’t sell. I hope you had confidence in your President and confidence that President Trump: was going to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in 1976 as the Democratic nominee and the next Democratic President of the United States, Ted Kennedy." People didn't … clearly the person that Kennedy folks looked to after the President's death. No, I don't think I did. Some of the stuff …
Presidential Recordings
… a meeting about Vietnam held on November 2, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy, … government in Vietnam, and information on the deaths of President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Ted Kennedy? Rudman I first met Ted when I was incoming president of the National Association of Attorneys General in … but I guess that’s true of all of us. Knott He had run for President in 1980, the same year you won your Senate seat. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of us were working to assert the proposition that the President had a lot of executive power to accomplish things … group. I started it with Arthur Flemming, who had served Presidents from [Franklin D.] Roosevelt on, and who had a … and I thought he would bring a lot of creativity to the Presidency. ADA [Americans for Democratic Action], which I …
Presidential Speeches
… the good harvests for maintaining good public credit. The President warns that any type of war on the seas could pose … necessary to put in force the Act, which empowers the President to call out the Militia for the protection of the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… beyond what you’d imagine. That was certainly true of the President [John Fitzgerald Kennedy]. It was glaringly true of … to vote on every issue, but my view of the matter is that Presidents have the right to nominate Supreme Court Justices; … that the Senate has a political obligation to support the President’s nominees. Lewis Historically, that’s not true. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… so devoted to him. I’ll tell you a follow-up on it. When President [John F.] Kennedy came to office, he reappointed me … about ’60 or ’61—in Lagos, Nigeria, of all places. I was presiding over the African Regional Conference of the … Goldwater. Knott I mean, here you are up against the President’s brother, and I’m wondering if you tried to sort …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a bipartisan coalition to pass it. He was working with President Bush in good faith, and I would assume there was … in stories, with it getting louder and louder. Finally the presiding officer said there would be order in the Chamber, … Subsequently, a person who was very instrumental in the President’s being elected committed a crime and the Attorney …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of Economic Advisers, but it’s a little removed from the President of the United States—that is as a staff member. Lee … under Kennedy, but I think very much reflecting the President’s interests, determined that—how did he put it? … with Bobby Kennedy when he was campaigning for the Presidency, for the nomination. I think that was partly …
Presidential Speeches
… President Polk requests that Congress allow the Oregon …
Presidential Speeches
… President Cleveland vetoes the Texas Seed Bill, which was …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Smith. Nancy left first when [Michael] Dukakis ran for President, and then she came back and left again with the … For us it increased when Bill Clinton was running for President, I distinctly remember, because I was helping the … generational. Carey had more respect for the office of the Presidency than somebody who came of age post-Nixon. There’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… he served, at that time, and perhaps still does, as president of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, which had … to meet all these people, Nobel Laureates and, of course, Presidents and Governors. I remember Jimmy Carter wandering …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… it himself. It was pretty bizarre. Heininger He was the President. Nexon Yes, that’s right. That’s why I say it was a … about doing this in the first place, said to the President, You can’t put out this big, expensive healthcare … is similar to what it was at the start of the Clinton Presidency, which suggests that there is a basis out there …
Miller Center Scholars
… of politics. His research focuses on the American presidency, political parties and elections, social …