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Presidential Speeches
… who return to China from coming back to the U.S.. President Chester Arthur passed the first such bill in 1882. …
Presidential Speeches
… President Harrison submits to Congress a report from the … American nations. This report follows another message from President Harrison, sent to Congress on June 2, 1890, which …
Presidential Speeches
… upon to enter and the life that you have chosen. Any President has several functions. He speaks for and to the … the law. And he must lead. But no function, none of the President's hats, in my view, is more important than his role … of U.S. interests abroad was made possible because past Presidents, and I would single out in particular my …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for his brother Robert [Kennedy], who was running for President as of the date of this meeting. He said, “We’d … down on his agenda. I think he said to himself, “Look, the Presidency is gone. I’ll be judged in history, I hope, by my …
Miller Center Scholars
… he returned to the United States at the invitation of the president of the University of Oklahoma to become the … Liberalism, 1947-1985 (Oxford 1987). Gillon's next book, Presidents at War , will be released in early 2025. …
Presidential Speeches
… President Kennedy speaks after receiving his honorary degree … as well as in their private interests. Distinguished Presidents like President Graham and Gray, distinguished leaders like the …
Presidential Speeches
… North African and Sicily that led to Mussolini's fall. The President urges the nation to continue the war effort, while …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… And, his relations with the White House for these many Presidencies. Your work with him after you left the staff, I … John Hinckley had been stalking Senator Kennedy as well as President [Jimmy] Carter, Jodie Foster, and President …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… I had a lot of private sector offers at that time. Then President Bush threw a monkey wrench in the works by asking … and that’s a really good question in the context of how a Presidency works too, because it varies depending upon how …
Presidential Speeches
… The President reassures the Mandan Nation that the United States …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… became assistant to the Presidential staff secretary to President Bush in ’91, my deputy was John Gardner, deputy … and their assignments, the hands-on need within the Vice President’s office for somebody forcing the system to … Clinton, and how he is one of the most engaged Vice Presidents in history. I really think that sort of …
Presidential Speeches
… In Normandy, France, President Reagan addresses the American Rangers who fought on …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was also the year that [Michael] Dukakis was running for President—and the campaign was based here in Boston. I was … to work for Mario Cuomo, who I really wanted to run for President in ’92, and worked for him for about a year and a half. When he decided not to run for President, I went to work for Bill Clinton and started to go …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… You were running for reelection at the same time as President Clinton was running. Did you have interactions on … about how the vote came down in the House. Do you see the Presidency learning or responding in any significant way over …
Presidential Speeches
… President Polk vetoes a river and harbors bill which would …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Beryl Sprinkel, decided to stay on. I got to know the Vice President through some people on his staff who knew me and … me. I’d occasionally have breakfast with him at the Vice President’s house when I was in Washington doing other … goes on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, but most Presidents don’t pay enough attention to the Fed. That’s an …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… a long history with the Bush family, particularly with the President’s brother, Jeb [John Ellis Bush]. We’d like you to … a lightning bolt. Why is he resigning so soon into the Presidency? A senior staff person, really? Six months in? I …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… talking about what those lessons are. To a certain extent President [Barack] Obama has applied those lessons so far. … He was very involved in the welfare reform debate with President Clinton at the time. He has an interest in foreign … just how you would characterize his relationship with President Clinton. Overall, I think it was a very positive …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… people in the future who want to come to understand this Presidency and your experience with it as it actually was. … Force One. That’s the earliest memory I have of seeing a President on TV. But I think I really got interested in it … we read at that time. The whole book is just about what Presidents thought, what they did, and all the research is …
Presidential Biographies
… First Lady Thelma "Pat" Nixon Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (1969–1973) Vice President Gerald Ford (1973–1974) Secretary of State William …