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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
… President Bush delivers the Graduation Speech at the United …
Presidential Speeches
… Kennedy gives his last formal address before assuming the presidency. He articulates the characteristics of leadership …
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… as I have recorded in my book Kennedy , I do know that the President was in a ticklish position for more than one … on Cuba? And the answer was no, wait until you hear the President’s speech. Young Yes. Sorensen Aside from that, I … no doubt about the fact that the JFK campaign for the Presidency was extremely hard work. Exhausting. In a sense, …
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 …
Presidential Speeches
… President Nixon addresses the nation to announce a … in the coming year, working together to limit ABMs. The President notes that intensive negotiations will follow to …
Presidential Biographies
… First Lady Michelle Obama Vice President Joseph Biden Secretary of State John F. Kerry …
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… I first met him in the Oval Office, at a meeting that President [George Walker] Bush called, the first week he was President. He was rolling out his recommendations for No … a central part of that conversation. I was there as the President’s Senior Education Advisor, Margaret [Spellings] …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in him after he made the decision to no longer run for President? Kruse I hadn’t worked here that long. At that … to count. He learned from that, just like the loss for the Presidency. Since that time, he and Senator Byrd have forged …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and that was when Bobby [Robert Francis Kennedy] ran for President. At the beginning of that campaign, I had thought … with Jack Kennedy’s help and was the Congressman from the President’s district. The younger group of aides, Kenny … Leader Robert Dole of Kansas, trying to run for the Presidency from the Senate, and Ted Kennedy, almost by …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… talk about that. I do remember your brother, before he was President, went out to Texas to assure people that he … was an extraordinary project. I was kind of tired of doing Presidents. I had launched the Presidential projects and I … look at the President and everything you see is from the President’s point of view, and you sort of adopt a …
Presidential Speeches
… gain more foreign affairs power, the House requests that President Washington release all pertinent documents and … information which the Constitution has enjoined upon the President as a duty to give, or which could be required of … been, as it will continue to be, while I have the honor to preside in the Government, my constant endeavour to harmonize …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Boston. I recognized that as being the Boston address of President and Mrs. Kennedy and I knew he was in Washington. … his advice. Knott I wonder if I could ask you about when President Kennedy was assassinated. Could you tell us where … Once in a while, I’d go over myself. This is memorable. President [Lyndon] Johnson was going to visit him so he said, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… it. We worked out of 22 Bowdoin Street (the same apartment President [John F.] Kennedy used) that fall just doing some … This is going to be an easy race because he’s the President’s brother? Souliotis No. The assumptions were it … day? Souliotis Of course. All freshmen Senators have to preside over the Senate so many hours a week. So he was in …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… [Jr.], because Goody at the time, worked for the Vice President. Since Harold was from Tennessee, our office worked … Senator’s, who was interested in having an audience with President Clinton. The Senator said, Well, hell, we’re going … so the White House staffers were freaking out. The President was in his little hideaway office right off of the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… as kids handing out Congressional pamphlets for the President. The President’s cousins lived on our street in Milton, so there …
Presidential Speeches
… and he outlines the internal issues with trade. The President summarizes the military situation and foreign …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… then some very big non-proliferation issues involving the President and Vice President [Walter] Mondale, who made some pretty strong … follow-through as well. After he came back he met with the President, the Secretary, and the National Security Advisor. …