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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… issues affecting the economy. Young Walter Heller had been President [John F.] Kennedy’s chairman of— Parker Yes, the … after Robert Kennedy’s death, but to some extent after President Kennedy’s assassination as well, he was a second … oral history record. And then there’s the 1980 run for the Presidency, the campaign experience, and how that evolved and …
Presidential Biographies
Presidential Recordings
… of part of a meeting held on November 7, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Under Secretary of State George …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in a lot of things. Despite a willingness to work with President [George Walker] Bush early on with No Child Left … a little. The best examples I can think of are when President [William Jefferson] Clinton nominated Justice [Ruth … wage. We had trouble getting— Even though I supported my Presidents, I have a different view. I don’t think it is …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Riley Successfully? Edelman Well, mostly not, but I was president of the All-City Student Council in high school, and … Onward and upward, American progress, we always have good Presidents now. It’s a long time since Herbert Hoover. But …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… that we were trying to produce something comparable to the President’s economic report with a staff of three—in just … policy process and the end of any discretion for a Clinton Presidency. How did those, as you see it, feed into Clinton’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… First of all, anyone who says to you, I’m going to be President, either they’re a nutcase—if you’re a New Yorker … Walter Mondale so much? I didn’t think he should run for President, but I was for children. The whole issue of my life … been easier. Riley I guess during the first year of the Presidency, they brought David Gergen in, to some extent. …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Let's start with your recollections of either meeting President Clinton or of the campaign period through 1992. … Budget Office] estimates, which was different from what Presidents normally do. Martin Normally using OMB estimates? … why this vote was seen as being important for the Clinton Presidency. A lot of folks would say that if the budget …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Counsel. I had been to one or maybe two meetings with the President. That was a little different. I had that kind of … The history of that was that when [William J.] Clinton was President, the Republicans had stopped something like 60 … needed, and they thought they might have to bring the Vice President in to break a tie, which would have created another …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… generations to acquire some understanding of the Reagan Presidency and your role in it. We’re very grateful that … little sub-staff that did the daily news summary for the President and would occasionally write a speech, write … Washington very well. And incidentally, of all the recent Presidents, I would say he understood the governmental …
Presidential Speeches
… In a special message to Congress, President Harrison asks that lawmakers take "appropriate … a better sense of the gravity of the affair, says: Having presided temporarily over this court in regard to the seamen … could possibly do;" that "these acts have caused the President great pain, and he thinks a proper acknowledgment …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… boost for our morale, especially at a time when there was President Reagan, there was Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher, who … effectively than others. Young Well, he made a run for the Presidency in 1980 and he was running against Jimmy Carter, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… bill, because that was very much on the front pages. President [Lyndon Baines] Johnson, as we said, had had the … month on the job—to make a number of proposals off of the President's crime commission. The first was the establishment … that Nixon made that appointment of Burger early in his Presidency, and it was not highly contested. Here's a short …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… in welfare offices than anyone else who’d ever sought the Presidency, so he was able to speak about the issue in a way … spend money on it. I fought hard to be an Assistant to the President so I could have a seat at the table so I could … Ellwood wanted to go slowly, we all wanted to keep the President’s promise, and everybody on the welfare task force …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… had a chance to think through what he wanted to do as President. In the '80s there was a great fascination with … else. Reed That's true. At key points in the Clinton Presidency, the speechwriting department was where the rubber …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… with Iraq, almost immediately because it flowed from the President’s comments, was were we in favor of the removal of … meetings on the domestic side, at least early on in his Presidency. Lake Yes, he did. Absolutely. He loved it. Even …
Presidential Biographies
… 1957; John Jr. was born two weeks after his father won the presidency. A third child, Patrick, died two days after his … birth in August 1963. After a long succession of elderly presidents, it was refreshing for many to see the Kennedy … particular stood out: that of John Jr. playing under the president's desk in the Oval Office. When JFK died, it was …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… on Bosnia, which suggests, I believe, that I presented to President Clinton a plan for allowing the Iranians to send … through from week to week or month to month through the presidency. So with that sort of preface, could you then take … of his position on domestic issues. That is primarily why Presidents get elected and should get elected. Many people …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… Ronnie, you’ve got to make a run for the primary, for the Presidency. I think you would do great. There were about … One thousand dollars per person, made out to Reagan for President. This is the maximum amount contributable by any …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… position at the State Department ironically was due to President George Herbert Walker Bush. There had been a … remember with either [I. Lewis] Scooter Libby in the Vice President’s office or with Paul Wolfowitz, who may or may not … and came in at a time when there had been a series of Presidents who entered office with a great deal of Washington …