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Presidential Speeches
… country, under His kind providence, has enjoyed during the past year. Notwithstanding the exciting scenes through which … of a superintending Providence the developments of the past may be regarded but as the shadowing forth of the mighty … relations; nor can I anticipate the occurrence of any event which would be likely in any degree to disturb those …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… of the speakers, along with the Governor of Iowa, at an event with DNC [Democratic National Committee] trustees. It … Usually, the questions begin about your own political past before you encountered Bill Clinton. We don't have a lot … showed his capability as a communicator at the Chicago event and we won. We had a significant edge, amazingly, at …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… really, I think, blossomed in this campaign. With his past experience he really was ready for the national … My wife and I went to Washington for all the inaugural events. We went to the inaugural ball through the snow in our … very pro-life. How does he deal with that? How does he get past that potentially thorny issue? Costin I think he’s just …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… some of the experiences of the immediate and the historic past. The past experience for me was not just Afghanistan, … Kennedy I think so. There were these series of different events in the early ’90s, the [first] attack on the World … positions, mostly in the Defense Department. In any event, that was the climate and atmosphere in the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… possibly could to get them there. We planned a very good event. Am I going into too much detail? Knott No, this is … first time. He told me, We have a new man coming on. Your event sounds like it’s going to be very good. His name is … In our city of 14,000. The maximum we had had in the past was about 25-30,000 for our fair. We always said it was …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… what I would say, Jim, is that my recollection of specific events is going to be colored by twelve to fifteen years of … I remember one time I was over in room 450 with him for an event and we were coming back and he stopped me in the middle … and he would walk on his applause lines. He’d walk right past them, and we’d all groan. Or he’d have that little grin …
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… United States was a critical outsider at the much quieter event on the other side of the world. The governments of … but it is hard not to remember the humiliations of the past when one is confronted by the innuendos of a superior … news is that the relationship has done us both good in the past, and it can continue to do so in the future. China has …
The problem with an isolationist interpretation of “America First” is that America is not isolated. Global withdrawal means cutting the bonds of mutual interest. From its beginnings, the U.S. has been a commercial nation, and it has been the political and economic center of the global order for the last 70 years. Making America great again requires global leadership, and leadership is interactive. China is not an obstacle to American leadership, but China policy is its greatest challenge.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… two interviews now with him on the ’62 campaign and the events surrounding that, his campaign for the Senate and his …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… involvement—I mean, there had been important things in the past, but the modern involvement essentially begins in the … any impulses from Nationalist Ireland. It was a traumatic event, and I think Kennedy reflected that. It wasn’t an open … in the sense, whatever was the reality of Gerry Adams’ past, he clearly had made a very long journey into the normal …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… all sorts of stuff. We discussed a little bit in the past how I was there not just as his health guy, but also the … involve some complicated political stuff dealing with the past, not so much dealing with the present, but something from the past that I can be helpful in solving. Heininger Broader than …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… advisory board, which no President that I know of in the past had done, and certainly none has followed it, because he … him. Even though they were Presidential appointees in the past, basically whoever wrote the biggest check got the … everything. Once in a while when I’m Washington for some event or other, I see him. [William] Clinton always had a big …
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… and documents relating to the investigation, the violent events of that summer will never be entirely clear, and … of Mississippi’s sage novelist William Faulkner that "the past is never dead. It’s not even past.” While the U.S. government is engaged in a struggle …
Although many feared the worst, none of them knew for certain that a band of white supremacists associated with the Ku Klux Klan and the Neshoba County Sheriff’s Department had murdered them on a rural roadway.
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… setting. We did a press conference on one of those events. I had first heard of him, before I met him, from a … think he was Governor quite yet at that point. In any event, George Shipley had his eye on President Clinton early … and things, sort of a blink and a wink. They were campaign events but they were not campaign events. They were official …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… committee. He was going to have to deal with getting it past the jurisdictional committee. Fine Right. But again, we … of the Union speech. You weren’t going to get anything past Gerald Ford that was anything like what we wanted. The …
Presidential Speeches
… from intrigue. This course has borne rich fruit in the past, and it is our duty as a nation to preserve the heritage … developed in its deliberations, the subsequent course of events in the islands gave rise to questions of a serious … the establishment of a republican form of government is an event of great interest to the United States. Our minister at …
Presidential Speeches
… interest, no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness, but am supported by a full conviction that the … whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first … with Spain, and in the universal satisfaction at that event throughout the United States, a decisive proof how …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… when the Iranian hostage— Broder Yes. That was an external event, which they had no way of predicting. Jimmy Carter, … causes. I saw him at an anniversary celebration just this past, I think, September we were up there together. That has … of service, by itself, is notable. We tend to look at past Senates in terms of the Senate leaders, and that …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… too, but when they see you they’re really looking past you to the next person, and if there’s somebody more … different about what we did and what had been done in the past. That took us to the general election and we were … votes. If you can’t make a case that his appearance at an event or a speech, any activity, will result in significant …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… world. Not only was this true in this Presidency, but in past ones and in the current one going on. That is as brief … been psychologically devastated by the previous decade of events. He was offering himself as a healer of that, … The Presidential popularity that seemed to exist with past President-elects was not happening to Jimmy Carter. In …