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… When former President Richard Nixon agreed to televised interviews with David Frost in return for $1 million, he didn't know what he was in for. Three years after Nixon resigned the presidency, the British television personality would confront …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… associations, contacts with Teddy and the Gargan kids. I did some sailing with them and played occasionally in the … to go up Beacon Street right in front of Grandpa’s hotel. He had two balconies on each side of the corner, and we were …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the Kennedy family working as a journalist and a writer. He discusses the 1960 presidential campaign and his personal relationship with Edward Kennedy. He also discusses Edward Kennedy’s first Senate campaign in … and testified at that impeachment trial, and I think that he was reasonably impressed with the fact that I was a …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Frackleton begins by describing how she came to work for Kennedy in 1961 and her duties in … who aren’t even necessarily around now about what you did and about Senator Kennedy. Perhaps the best place to start would be if you could just tell us how you came to work for Senator Kennedy. Your background, if …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… and national security during the George H.W. Bush presidency, Robert Gates offers unique perspectives on the … you talk a little bit about your intellectual mentors. How you came to study the Soviet Union in the middle 60’s, … unprecedented. And we did these briefings every day of his presidency. I did most of the traveling with Bush …
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… How Biden can deal with ongoing tensions with China. … Richmond Times-Dispatch One of the few certainties facing president-elect Joe Biden is the prospect of an enduring … of the Soviet Union that put it on the losing side? What did they do wrong, and what was President Donald Trump doing …
How Biden can deal with ongoing tensions with China.
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Young Yes. Sorensen We’ll find out. Young Yes. Well, he particularly wanted you included in these. Sorensen Well, … had decided to do the project, when he was planning about how to do this: how would you go about this and that? Would … Eunice [Kennedy Shriver] day before yesterday. Sorensen How’s her health? Young I can’t tell, but she is driven. I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Dingell discusses the various issues he worked on with Kennedy from the House, as well as some … recall your first introduction to Senator Edward Kennedy, how you first came to know him. Dingell I don’t even … were quite often things on which we met different ways. He was always a good man to work with—smart, decent, kept his …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Marshall] quite favorably, we might start out by saying how you came to observe or become acquainted with him. Lewis … him and I’ll call him here, in 1962, very shortly after he became [U.S.] Attorney General. We spent a month going … was a terrible idea. I suppose many right-thinking people did. [ laughing] I meant that sarcastically. I said something …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… or the arraignment. Sorensen Inquest, yes. Young And he then entered a plea of guilty to leaving the scene of an … on the 19th, or came on the 19th. Burke Marshall. Sorensen Did he stay, Dick? Young I don’t know. Sorensen Because I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… York City. Why don’t we start at the very beginning; when did you first meet Ted Kennedy? Strauss I went to work for … and said she had a friend who might be good for the job. He said, Oh, yes? What about her? She has a college degree … wrong, you just come in here and tell me about it. That’s how small a unit it was—There maybe were ten or twelve people …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to know them pretty well. As far as I recall at the time, he had a girl from Longford here. Well, we lived in Longford … else's in relation to the North. One of the first things I did in relation to the North was open communications between …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Assistant to the president and White House staff secretary Counselor to the … as senior counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. He later volunteers for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign … including preparing briefing materials for the president as well as circulating documents among advisors and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Knott Do you have any questions about how this works? Farrell No. I think I’ve read enough of them … and that was when Bobby [Robert Francis Kennedy] ran for President. At the beginning of that campaign, I had thought that he was too ruthless and that he was stealing something that …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… female staffer in the early years of Kennedy's tenure and how these experiences helped prepare her for her career in … at the JFK [John F. Kennedy] Library. Tell me how you met Edward Kennedy. Lyons I met him in Boston during … as kids handing out Congressional pamphlets for the President. The President’s cousins lived on our street in …
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… voters to work with Congress and adopt the agenda on which he campaigned. Indeed, this kind of mandate rhetoric is common when new presidents, facing polarized parties and low trust in … voters to work with Congress and adopt the agenda on which he campaigned (Pace 2016). Indeed, this kind of mandate …
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and other Republicans began claiming, in the election’s immediate aftermath, that Trump had earned a mandate from the voters to work with Congress and adopt the agenda on which he campaigned. Indeed, this kind of mandate rhetoric is common when new presidents, facing polarized parties and low trust in governing institutions, need to defend themselves against critics.
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… Jeff Chidester on how Reagan used tough talk during the 1980 campaign … in U.S. ground troops. Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) stated he would carpet bomb ISIS “into oblivion.” Businessman and … crisis, the campaign offers an important case study on how rhetoric on the campaign trail can affect policy after an …
Jeff Chidester on how Reagan used tough talk during the 1980 campaign
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… at about the time [William J.] Clinton was running for President. O’Dowd Yes. Young Is that right, or did you have—what was your connection with Kennedy or Gerry … Bush, George Bush the First, who at that point looked like he was going to be reelected. So we encountered President …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter and Kennedy are brought up. He compares the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Clinton … UMass Boston. Kennedy will not see any of the interviews. He does not see anything that anybody says. It is very …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… you can imagine that, and I refused to read it. Swerdlow How old were you at that time? Miller Maybe seven. When I think back on that, I say, How did I know not to submit to that? The teachers thought it was …