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Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… issue and enhanced interrogation; the India nuclear deal; the Iraq War; the Iraq War troop surge; the Iraq Study … anything that we didn’t touch on before that you’d like to deal with before we get into the 9/11 Commission fully? … at Rutgers and served in the attorney general’s office in New Jersey. John was recommended by Tom Kean, I think, to me. …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… and had my own advertising agency. I had come back from New York in 1963 and opened an agency. I had never done any … conflicting signals within the administration—I remember dealing with that. I worked on other government … it’s more fun, it’s easier, and you don’t have to deal with Congress as much. So here when you had the …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… and defense policies as the Cold War came to an end, the New World Order, the invasion of Panama, and the … about a year doing that, and then Henry Kissinger needed a new assistant. Al Haig was going back to the Army, and he …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Planning, which was a new post. It was supposed to be the number three job in the … Bob’s interests and his experience had been a good deal narrower. He was really a bankruptcy lawyer in Atlanta … bureaucracy is different. But this is equally true of dealing with clients and dealing with other lawyers. It’s not …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… particularly going to Kimball Union Academy, which was in New Hampshire—he was taken by a football coach, I think … easy chair at our home in Jamaica Plain, so I had a great deal of affection for him. He’d roughhouse with me, as you … letters that Joe Kennedy wrote to President [Franklin] Roosevelt—this would be six months after my mother’s death, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… idea was kind of a lark. We had a very fine reporter in New England named Ruth Mehrtens. She teamed up with me … at all. It was just that the editors were incapable of dealing with the subtleties of it. After the death of his …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… process, and a lively process. And there was always a good deal of sports activity wrapped into all of that, the games … saved the Constitution in 1896. He went up to Portsmouth, New Hampshire before he got elected to Congress and saw that …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… by asking this question: As you're transitioning into a new arrangement of people in late 2004 and early 2005, I'm … flat. Condi basically said, "I don't want to just be dealing with senior directors; I want to be dealing with … in the NSC staff putting together ad hoc teams to deal with an issue, where you pull in functional people, …
Presidential Recordings
… -[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito -Timing of announcement -New York City -Departure -Traffic -Itinerary 2 NIXON … -Leon Trotsky -Josef V. Stalin -Compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt's program -Shultz’s point -Connally -Success of New Deal -Safire -Connally -Sam Whiting -Media coverage -News …
Presidential Biographies
… deaths of Presidents Taylor, Lincoln, McKinley, Franklin Roosevelt, and Kennedy. Enemies might sneer at Tyler as "His … the presidency on several occasions, was furious. The new President had no allies in the cabinet. Within weeks, … Amidst these troubles in his administration, Tyler had to deal with personal tragedies as well. His wife, Letitia, had …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… It was the integrity of the arguments, the way that I’m dealing with certain issues. After he passed away, I was … Kennedy style, and the ability to say certain things in new ways and elegant language. The depth of them and the … 41. Wehner Yes. At that time the drug issue was a very big deal. It was one of the top issues for the American public. …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… and Bruce Blair’s book, both of which opened up lots of new information that hadn’t really been out there. Then Ash … into the second term of the Clinton—after successfully dealing with the Balkans, reelection, they said the morale …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… moved from his Geneva position to Washington, with me. The new deputy in Geneva was the former Governor of Washington … For anyone who is a negotiator, your early trade deals inform your views about subsequent deals, including … to peace in the traditional vision of [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt and [Harry] Truman. These themes cropped up …
Presidential Recordings
… of China [PRC] relations -Kissinger’s recent trip to New York -Bangladesh -Membership in United Nations [UN] issue … -Winston S. Churchill, Josef V. Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt -Correspondence in World War II -Quality … and agreements -Azores agreement -US-Soviet Union trade deal -The President's recent conversation with Haldeman …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… manage to navigate into a field where there wasn’t a great deal of existing work? Is it easier to do work in that regard … grappled with and the experience from [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt through [Harry S.] Truman and [John F.] Kennedy and … they had their time and it didn’t work, and we need a new direction. Then there is nobody in the middle. So there’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… War, that the American people would make a choice for a new, young, exciting politician versus George Bush. We … The great leaders have to be pragmatists. Franklin Roosevelt was the ultimate pragmatist, Lyndon Johnson. Ronald …
Presidential Recordings
… The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. Alice Roosevelt Longworth dinner -Guest list -Kissinger -Joseph W. … -Television [TV] -Ronald L. Ziegler -Press coverage -The New York Times -Kissinger’s demeanor -Compared to Kissinger’s … 1972 -Sovereignty -Haig’s letter -US option [bi-lateral deal] -Timing -January 1973 -Thieu -Possible collapse …
Presidential Recordings
… -Washington Post articles by Jonathan Randall -Compared to New York Times I[?] -Distortions -Gaullists -Losses of … PRC -Impact on PRC, USSR -Overextension -Imbalance -PRC -Deal with Mao Tse-Tung, Chou En-lai -Ties with US -Letters … Security Council Resolution 242 [1967] -US pressure -Meir -Dealings with US -12- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM …
Presidential Speeches
… Sixty days into the "First Hundred Days" Roosevelt updates the nation on the progress of the special … understand and approve the broad purposes behind these new governmental policies relating to agriculture and … average, not only for myself but for the team. Theodore Roosevelt once said to me: "If I can be right 75 percent of …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… and dealt with some of the questions we would typically deal with. The other is an interview done by the Institute of … reference those to pick up some things we might not be dealing with here. The other thing I want to say is sort of … actually campaigned against a guy named Charlie Goodell in New York who was a moderate Republican. Polsby Elected Jim …