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Presidential Speeches
… President Hoover delivers a campaign speech titled “The …
Public Events
… Politics Go Global and the co-author, with Brookings President Strobe Talbott, of Fast Forward: Ethics and …
Presidential Recordings
… a meeting about Vietnam held on October 29, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Chief of the Central Intelligence … Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy, Military Advisor to the President General Maxwell Taylor, Secretary of Defense Robert …
Presidential Speeches
… which could jeopardize U.S. trade and neutrality. The new President then lists principles he will use to guide him …
Presidential Speeches
… become one of the most famous speeches given by a U.S. President. …
Presidential Speeches
… and the military preparedness of the United States. The President asks Congress to ready the country economically and …
Presidential Speeches
… States and inciting chaos among the Indian nations. The President reviews the defense of the nation, but he neglects …
Presidential Speeches
… President Monroe outlines the challenges that the new nation …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… suspect that it was because, in that part of the country, President [John F.] Kennedy—and this is all speculation on my … work in many settings. It did not pass the first year. President Reagan, who had shifted positions in the Supreme …
Presidential Speeches
… President Adams gives an overview of the success of the …
Presidential Speeches
… President Kennedy offers several remarks on the Youth Fitness … responded to the challenge. Some years ago, another President of the United States who was also interested in …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… get it done. Young Did this figure in his thinking, that President Carter also was in principle? Boies Yes. Young And … at a very young age, under the shadow of two brothers. The Presidency is way in the distance if it’s there, and as a …
Presidential Biographies
… fell below 50 percent of the budget during Eisenhower's presidency—Eisenhower did balance three of the eight federal … some of Eisenhower's diplomatic initiatives, including the President's effort to end the Korean War. As promised, …
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… Supreme Court ruling, undermined Bush’s wish to start his presidency with a strongly united nation. While he won an … many national political figures urged him to run for the presidency. On the morning of his second inauguration as … by Gore. Al Gore was finishing his second term as vice president, the heir apparent to President Bill Clinton when …
The national spectacle of the Florida recounts, with its disputed ballots, “hanging chads,” and determinative Supreme Court ruling, undermined Bush’s wish to start his presidency with a strongly united nation. While he won an Electoral College victory 271 to 266, Gore won 500,000 more popular votes from the American people than the victor.
Presidential Speeches
… Following his testimony before the Grand Jury, President Clinton remarks that while he regrets making … life for my family. It's nobody's business but ours. Even Presidents have private lives. It is time to stop the pursuit …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… doubts about No Child Left Behind, and I expressed that to President [George W.] Bush. I instinctively didn’t like … or that anybody deserved a lot of criticism other than the President himself, from my point of view. I don’t recall … and with all of her beliefs, but that’s what electing Presidents is about. If the candidates are qualified by …
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… presidential transitions were not really a thing. The president’s job responsibilities before the New Deal and … presidential transitions were not really a thing. The president’s job responsibilities before the New Deal and …
Given the obsession with the transition from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, it is striking that for most of American history, presidential transitions were not really a thing. The president’s job responsibilities before the New Deal and World War II were comparatively modest.
Presidential Speeches
… President Bush delivers a speech in the Indian Treaty Room of …
Presidential Speeches
… Rights Act to provide fair housing for all Americans, President Johnson remarks on the significance of the … not exaggerate when I say that the proudest moments of my Presidency have been times such as this when I have signed …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the public, when you're going to be able to capture the President. He knew how to do that. Myers Yes. Heininger He … Myers From the point of first putting pen to paper, to the President putting the pen to the law and signing it into law, … get it through? Myers Well, we had the stars lined up with President [Barack] Obama and Democrats in charge of the House …