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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… The world has looked with increasing concern in the past eight years on the continuing tragedy that afflicts the … had become a more prominent figure. It was a confluence of events that brought us together. We had Speaker O’Neill, … talk to the President a little bit about Ireland at that event and I was told very clearly that he did not want to get …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… We'd begun with a game plan, we executed the game plan, events changed. I think Senator Kennedy would say this. I don't think we changed with the events as quickly as we should have. We were on the road, but … ones on the one, two, three, four system, and this was the past turnout pattern, all this stuff. Most people left and he …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was his first lecture after announcing, and it was a huge event on campus, I mean, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds … and his wife was with him. They were here for some other event, and from a small town in Kansas. She had ALS. … to the doctors five or six times a month that’s the big event. And for sometimes very unnecessary reasons, …
Presidential Recordings
… -Visibility -Press coverage -Public reaction -One event per day President's schedule -Management awards … settlement -POW return -Future decline -Teeter poll -Past gains -Pre-election period -Post-election results …
Presidential Recordings
… with -Photographer Oval Office history -The President’s past experiences -Harry S Truman -Meeting with Charles J. … -Oval Office -Quietness -Camp David -California -Florida Events of last few months -People’s Republic of China [PRC] …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… said it was not good idea. [ laughter ] Jack just shot past, said you don’t need to see this anti-Kennedy sign, you … meet you at 10:00, and 10:00 would come, but five minutes past 10:00, he wouldn’t— So one time I had a reporter from … We would go to Chicago, for example, and set up an event. We wouldn’t stay for the event because while that was …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… of the legal partners, and worked on a couple of campaign events. But that was the first time I think I’d ever really … something that would be fun because most of the social events aren’t fun either, so they created—I think it was that … staff, on what was happening, what was going on. The other event that summer or maybe early fall, there was a meeting of …
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… business assigning blame for such a large and complex event. But if we are going to assign blame, we should begin … stands condemned simply for being a tyrant. Over the past two decades he has steadily dragged Russia back into …
Analysts who blame the West for deluded ideological thinking – who do not understand that there really is a transnational contest between democracy and authoritarianism and that it helped cause this war – are misdiagnosing the problem.
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… Days ... we don’t yet understand how campaign pledges fit events and trends as yet unknown to us, that’s what four … “most powerful office in the world,” yet to assume that events can be “shaped like hot wax can set you up for an … seem more intractably—structurally—divided. During the past four decades, a more centralized, programmatic, and …
Every modern president has dwelled in the shadow of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s extraordinary beginning amid the worst economic crisis in the nation’s history.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… get seasick. He still gets seasick, but at least in the past year, he came with us a couple of times and it was a lot … in the kid factor. Rambunctious. Young How long did these events continue? Raclin Oh, hours. Young But I mean in terms … of the things that have happened, and current events and past events and knowing the facts, as far as I have been told …
Presidential Speeches
… of Congress, and fellow Americans: In the normal course of events, Presidents come to this chamber to report on the … state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We have seen the unfurling of flags, the … against our country. Americans have known wars—but for the past 136 years, they have been wars on foreign soil, except …
Public Events
… the nation’s great debates over war and peace for the past eight years. He discusses his book, "Alter Egos: Hillary … change agreement was arrived at. These were historic events for the people who supported them. But a) is, is it a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to do? James Flug Is that a present-tense question or a past-tense question? Heininger Both—past and present. Flug … kept in touch over the years, at the usual Kennedy family events, and I mean "family" in the larger sense: annual … been just after I left. I can't remember the date. In any event, Carey was the one who handled that, and did a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… rights activist, now teacher, Bob Moses, who had spent the past 15 years creating new ways to teach math. Kennedy was … of the successful Broadway performers. When there were events at the Kennedy Library in Boston, the annual dinner, … happened maybe every five years—where there was a public event, there would always be musical entertainment. Probably …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… through. [ laughter ] It must be amazing to him. In any event, there I was in the office. They were out on the … and its vision, but he couldn’t get over the issues of his past. Heininger Did you experience that when you were talking … He’d have some changes in the speeches. You’d go to an event, he’d give a speech, and then—because even though we …
Presidential Recordings
… -Press coverage -Timing of civil rights promises Past president -Kennedy -Rating -Harry S Truman -Franklin D. … -State dinners -Coordination with other dinners -Problems -Events for financial contributors -Evening at the White House … to Florida -Weather -Delays White House social affairs -Events for financial contributors -Dinners -Scheduling -Press …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… early in the day. I don’t know really fully the various events that were so jammed together. I think we slept over … Sure. Haar It’s just that it was a remarkable series of events. I still remember and I feel good about it, how Teddy …
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… important symbolic messages: That he understands how past economic “rising tides” that left behind millions of … and that a message of restoring the “greatness” of the past reads to black citizens like a return to times of deep … struggled to find genuine traction and effect after key events that galvanized the public. Their calls for a …
Donald Trump’s presidency offers an extraordinary opportunity to advance the paralyzed national discourse on race in America, and our new chief executive can validate his campaign claims to be a racially tolerant figure working for the success of all Americans—without alienating his core supporters.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… hats, constantly going to the school meetings and sports events. Everyone in the city who had children at these … Kennedy never missed a parent’s meeting, or a sports event. He was always there and he was a wonderful father to … state convention in Massachusetts— Heininger A huge event for him. Robinson So our office arranged for a private …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… his title of Vice President, but also his background and past experience enabled him to make that difference. And he’d … reason to try to plot those lines correctly. In any event, my personal reflection here, for the record, is one … I know just from scheduling meetings—be seeking to do more events out there to support the Vice President. He had a …