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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… No, that’s all right. There was not a peep from the President’s office. Some time in the spring… Heininger For a … We wanted, as a group, to get an Oval Office meeting with President [William] Clinton. By this time of course, so much …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… were already doing these standards, and Bill Clinton, as President, said that they should all do it. Frankly, Goals … Nobody can know for sure, but if we had had a Democratic President, I’m not sure he wouldn’t have taken that next … years. That should mean that in the first year of the next Presidency there should be some— Petroshius I didn’t say …
Presidential Speeches
… From the East Room of the White House, President Bush clarifies his "balanced approach" to stem cell …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to the point when Senator [William] Bradley and Vice President [Albert] Gore ran against each other in the … have to go back to the Founding Fathers to find other Presidents who had attempted to show leadership in health … entity make a decision of who could play. The night of the President’s speech there was a panel on one of the networks …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… In 1980 I was an integral part of the Kennedy campaign for President, so there are some things about that. I was … adult in the 1960s—I was an adult when his brother became President and I was kind of a sword carrier in the 1960 … want to go out on the boat with you but you’re going to be President; we’ll have a lot of fun days together. I would …
Presidential Speeches
… to obtain war reparations from Germany. Moreover, the President emphasizes the need to support European nations in … foundations of good will and cooperation had been laid by President Roosevelt. And it was clear that those foundations … at the conference that, under our Constitution, the President has no power to make any treaties without …
Presidential Speeches
… President Cleveland sends a message to Congress announcing a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I was dealing with Robert Kennedy’s decision to run for President, and Ted’s involvement with that. And I asked … George, how long does it take to get over being beaten for President, to move on to other things? McGovern said, Fritz, … in ’81 and ’82, he had the example of Senators who run for President and then lost the next time they ran. So he was …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Ambassador [Joseph Kennedy] said he should and told the President and the Attorney General, but I always thought … was it at all, I think the two things were separate in the President’s mind, in Ken’s mind. Ken had other reasons in his …
Public Events
… examines how the Trump administration—and future presidencies—might use the levers of economic power. The …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… meeting of the Governors had occurred when Bush was President, and they had agreed on some big-picture education … goals. What was significant was that you had a Republican President agreeing that there ought to be a way to raise the … Committee, formal votes in the House and Senate and the President’s signature. Then there was a deadline in terms of …
Presidential Biographies
… First Lady Michelle Obama Vice President Joseph Biden Secretary of State John F. Kerry …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… very well. In 1960, when Jack Kennedy started running for President, he naturally had many ties to Harvard. A Harvard … I was at GWU, Bobby Kennedy declared his candidacy for President on March 13, 1968. So I immediately took a leave of … Sawhill, who considered it a bit, but then was offered the presidency of NYU [New York University] and figured that was …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… by one family upon the political system. There was President Kennedy; then he appointed his brother Attorney General and that was all right. The President has a right to choose whom he wants to be the … D.] Eisenhower. Haar So it already was set that the Presidents would have them. Knott Right. Haar I don’t know, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy when he first announced that he was running for President. He came to Kansas State University to give a … very well. In the earlier years when he was running for President, I think he was really more uncertain about what he … process, and have a respect for government: the Presidency, the Congress, and the Judiciary. I used to say, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… you at all when he was considering making this run for the Presidency? Douglas I don’t have any specific recollection of … he had only gotten the job because his brother was the President. What kind of strengths and weaknesses did you see …
Presidential Speeches
… communism—which he refers to as the "false prophecy." The President also emphasizes four major courses of action in … Mr. Vice President, Mr. Chief Justice, fellow citizens: I accept with …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… those years, although he was dealing with a Republican President for the first four years of that period. He … previously mentioned, when the first George Bush became President, following the eight years of the [Ronald] Reagan … Bush was talking about being a “kinder and gentler” President, which meant there were opportunities in the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… responsibility of the states. Early in George H.W. Bush’s Presidency, there had been a group called NESIC, the National … districts and states meet these goals?” Once Clinton was President, work began on the bill that came to be called …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… because just before the summer recess, on August 3, 1996, President [William J.] Clinton invited the Democratic … Clinton said. Then Senator [Thomas] Daschle reiterated the President’s compliments and, overall, it was another … and his brother? What is the relationship between the Presidency and the Senate? How do you put a building next to …