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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… rather interesting, given the times. I was looking for a job, and I went to an employment agency called Snelling & … days, there was a line for women to go in and look for jobs and a line for men to go in. That’s how absolutely … event I met with a lady at Snelling & Snelling who asked, What do you want to do? What are you thinking of? We talked …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for agreeing to do this. Nolan My pleasure. Knott I think what we’ll do is we’ll just move chronologically. I think … These people are all coming in and they’re taking jobs away from Americans, which isn’t quite true. But if you … at South Boston High School, I was assigned the outside job. I wasn’t a big-shot then; I was a young fellow. The next …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… half years left on this Kennedy project. The transcript of what you say today will not be open to the public until five … now, approximately. You have control over that transcript. What’s going to happen is after we do the interview today, in …
Presidential Biographies
… and records offices, but that number fell far short of what black Republicans had wanted from the leader of Abraham … Cleveland's expansion of the merit list of office holders—jobs open to appointment and removal only for cause or …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… becoming staff director of that subcommittee. So that’s what took me up to the Hill. Heininger Why did he come to … talk to at the time, just Kennedy? Did he offer you the job right away? Goldman No, he didn’t offer me the job right …
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… back When we moved here, I had just left a dream job working at the White House. My soon-to-be-wife moved here … and the problems that can happen if you don’t. But what ultimately matters aren’t the views of his advisers and …
Yesterday my retreat became the frontline in America’s culture war. And yesterday’s event was different than any I’ve ever experienced.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was working for Senator Benjamin Smith. That was my first job, and it started in ’61. Heininger How did you get the … In that campaign, I dealt with the campaign people on what we would call case things. When people would have …
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… civility, tolerance, and forbearance prevailed. This was what normal politics looked like, and it fit well within the … legal mandates. When government agencies simply did their jobs as specified by law, Democrats came out ahead. For …
Extraordinary unilateral executive power threatens democracy
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… mean, did he ask you questions? Did he have an idea about what he wanted, or it was just getting a good person? Burke … the person who, against his wishes, tried to find me a job in Washington in the new government was George Shultz at … didn’t see himself as having a responsibility to tell me what’s happening. As a matter of fact, sometimes you’d see a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Knott Basically what will happen is you will get a transcript of this … the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. I tried to get a job with him, just a legal intern job. But I was told, Oh, … cared about the way in which the police carry out their jobs. He understood that you can’t just throw money at a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… National Health Insurance Plan. Why don’t you tell me what the state of play was prior to Clinton running for … physically draining because I was essentially working two jobs. I worked for Kennedy during the day and then I’d go up …
Presidential Biographies
… for working outside the home, but she had a full-time job for most of her life. “Ike was my career,” she declared. … Yet there was more to the Eisenhowers’ relationship than what the public knew. The President called Mamie “my … dresses helped define a personal style. But what truly set her apart was her favorite color, and she even …
Presidential Speeches
… Act of 1986 is intended to stimulate economic growth and job creation, and provide tax cuts. This bill is a departure … create record new businesses and nearly 11.7 million jobs in just 46 months. Fair and simpler for most Americans, … antipoverty bill, the best profamily measure, and the best job-creation program ever to come out of the Congress of the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… number of people or the person they intend to offer the job to. I didn’t really know where I stood but I figured it … is there, and the dog starts getting antsy. I didn’t know what was going on. The dog was barking a little bit and I …
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… great concern for the owl but because they wanted to do what they could to halt the harvesting of trees on national … little bit bigger too. It was a sliding scale in terms of what the ultimate objective would be. We probably could have … fire him because I felt Robertson was doing an excellent job. He was trying hard to balance all these conflicting …
Clayton Yeutter had different roles in Bush’s presidency: secretary of agriculture, Republican National Committee (RNC) chair, and counsel to the president
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… 1994, and Senator Kennedy’s own election campaign and then what happened after he won reelection and came back to … the powerful, as I said yesterday—fighting for their jobs, their healthcare, their education, fighting against … governorships, everywhere. I took leave from my Senate job and worked for the last ten days of the campaign and …
Presidential Biographies
… both of which (theoretically) would have created new jobs. The combination of agricultural woes and industrial … view, he and his administration worked hard to counter what they worried might be the beginning of a cyclical … meaning that more than 4 million Americans were out of a job. Other indicators were just as dreary. Industrial …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to two of them, I’ll tell you which one we may not get to. What we’re particularly interested in is your background … the first one, yes. Heininger So you interviewed for the job. You went to work for Long. Not ideologically in sync …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… the only person in the room who is allowed to talk about what we talk about. I'm pleased to say we've been doing this … make it, fine. If you don't we'll make sure we get you a job." So I win in November and George returns to D.C. looking …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… day for Senator Kennedy because everyone recognized what he had done in this very difficult climate, in the … he was the man who stood for Democratic resistance to what the Republicans had been trying to do. In September, … could take their insurance with them if they changed jobs, the so-called portability provisions, and the …