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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… jury indictment, and I realized that I still didn’t have a job in Washington. I started saying, “I had better get a job … I spent hours before the interview trying to figure out what the hell was going on in education in Washington. I had …
Presidential Speeches
… Domestically, the President states his desire to create jobs, increase income, and attain full employment through … and defense-related industries were still in their wartime jobs, unemployment would be far lower. Our goal in this … The Congress has helped to meet that goal by passing our job-creating tax program last month. The historic monetary …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… active? Dybul My dad was in the unions, because that’s what sheet metal workers did, so he was a staunch Democrat. … as an admissions officer and then had an amazing job as chief of staff to the president; we called it … is awesome. The initiative is done. We can go back to our jobs at NIH. We had the fun of creating it. Now we get to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Correct. Knott Could you tell us a little bit about what you did in that capacity? Hernandez When I was hired, it … interest. So one day she calls me and says, I’ve got the job you’re going to be interested in, because Ted Kennedy is …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the beginning. Tell me when you first met Edward Kennedy. What were your initial impressions of him? Saris Let me start … Anyone who went to Latin School is smart enough to do this job, and he offered me the job. So that was my exciting first …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… to me as an entering law student beginning to think about what I might do professionally in the years to come. So I … naive in some respects, but that just means you don't know what's impossible; you think everything is possible. That's …
Presidential Biographies
… pushing ore carts. Luck came his way with an office job in San Francisco, putting him in touch with a firm in … as a mining engineer until 1902. A string of similar jobs took him all over the world and helped Hoover become a … Hoover hoped that these innovations would strengthen what he saw as the central component of the American …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and he used to call me up all the time and say, “What should I write about?” He was also an active parent in the Boston public schools. Kirk promoted me for my next job, which was with Mayor [Raymond] Flynn. I think Kirk …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Byron if there was any chance of my getting any kind of job in the government. Byron said, Not if you’re in Geneva. … in Washington, and he told me that he thought that was what Bobby had decided. That was great with me; Byron was …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… at the beginning. Tell me about how you met Ted Kennedy. What were your first impressions of him? Hunter I think I met … asking him in the interview—and this was only a part-time job, so I didn’t do it— Tell me, are you really serious about …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… part of that campaign, so it spilled over in his person. What I think was happening at the time, and explains it, is the recession and people’s concern about losing their jobs and losing their health insurance. So then, as now, the … Durenberger likes to say only three people wanted the job and we hired two of them. They were concerned that …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… beginning? Tell me when you first met Edward Kennedy, and what were your first impressions of him. Sarfaty My very … went through the process and I was about to be offered the job, and they wanted the Senator to meet me before they …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of mouth heard of the position and was lucky that he—from what I understood in the interview—he was looking for someone … my chair. [ laughs ] So, nice start. I’m going to get this job. But it went really well. He was very gracious. He wanted …
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… inherit situations that might lead to a crisis . This is what happened in Somalia in 1992–1993. On December 4, 1992, … Defense Department’s troops that get deployed. In Somalia, what we ended up with, there was a desire to do something. … dragged through the street. That was my first day on the job as Acting Chairman. Riley: Can you hold onto it? I just …
The George H. W. Bush oral history project examines Somalia and the transition from Bush to Clinton
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I want to state again that if anybody objectively looks at what the Senator achieved during that period in terms of the … service. So it was widely recognized in the areas of jobs, education, and healthcare, Senator Kennedy’s work was … opportunity by improving schools or college aid or job training, the Republicans proposed to restore the …
Oral History Interviews
| Gerald Ford Project… rule that nobody may leave and then after he leaves say, “What we should have talked about there was so and so,” … the effectiveness of what actually happens as a result is what’s really important. If that’s good or bad, it’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of reasons it made sense for me to move on. It was a great job politically, but I’d gone to law school and wanted to use … say, This is a dream job; can you help me? I don’t know what happened behind the scenes, but it all worked out. I …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of the investigation. And I guess Archie was pleased with what I’d done. Then, in the beginning of ’75, Kennedy became … it has good procedures, but it was doing a terrible job, because it was raising prices of airline rates. So it …
Presidential Biographies
… here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together." … further controversy when announcing her candidacy, the job of senator, unlike the position of First Lady, involved … position than I've ever had before....I've always had jobs and worked for a living. I'm here, as everyone else in …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Washington, D.C. Tell me about how you met Ted Kennedy and what your first impressions of him were. Petroshius I met him … they prefer free. He kept saying, You can’t get a better job elsewhere. I’ll tell Secretary [Richard] Riley’s people …