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Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Director of the Office of Management and Budget … reflects on the 1988 Presidential campaign; the selection of Dan Quayle as Bush’s running mate; debate preparations; … the Presidential transition; becoming director of OMB; his impressions of President Bush; the history of the …
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… that result. --Not far from this scene of conflict, a crisis flared on Cyprus involving two peoples who are … since Vienna, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis. But despite this progress, we must maintain a … We can-and in time we will--change that despair into confidence, and change those frustrations into achievements. …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Vice President of the United States … We have a few little things that we have to get out of the way for the tapes first. One of them is that we go … lot, 47 different countries in four years, unless I had a crisis at the White House, which obviously happened during …
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… private sector; and our economy is now enjoying renewed confidence and energy. The recession has been halted. … recovery here at home. Labor and management must—and I am confident that they will—pursue responsible wage and price … goals in freedom—to help them before they are engulfed in crisis. This is also our great opportunity in 1961. If we …
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| Bill Clinton Project… that what you say here will, in fact, be kept in confidence. The other thing we do at the beginning is a voice … literally thrown together in the middle of the oil and gas crisis. In the course of my work on this task force, my point … this. Then I prayed that we would. I actually had a lot of confidence in the combined capabilities of law enforcement, …
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… pessimism and defeatism, Roosevelt attempts to reinstate confidence in the American people. In response to calls for … does not already possess. Your government has unmistakable confidence in your ability to hear the worst, without … with those he loves, but his life itself. In time of crisis when the future is in the balance, we come to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… it’s about more than campaigning. It’s also an overview of campaigning as you have known it, done it, experienced it … have to go back and redefine it. People don’t have the confidence that they can do it, and they have to clear it … the back. It was the night of the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. So they paused and said, Now we’re going to hear …
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… It includes help for those hardest hit by our economic crisis like the nearly 18 million Americans who will get … part of the broad strategy we need to address our economic crisis. In the coming days and weeks, I'll be launching … There will be hazards and reverses. But I have every confidence that if we are willing to continue doing the …
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… of today is a new Europe. In place of uncertainty there is confidence; in place of decay, progress; in place of … Atlantic Treaty 17 years ago had produced an atmosphere of crisis. It was a crisis that was born of deep fear: fear for Europe's economic …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… mean the whole thing. Riley You did that because you were confident you could get a bill, or was it action-forcing? … meanwhile, were looking for new poison pills. They weren’t confident that the immigrants issue was going to be enough, … it was too difficult to predict the politics, that he felt confident that he could beat Dole in any event. He had a …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… Anne Wexler joins three of her White House colleagues for a discussion on coalition … the Carter presidency. Wexler begins with an overview of her service with the Carter administration, covering her … selection team, her tenure as Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce, how she came to join the Office of Public …
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… fuel. I happen to believe that we can do it. In another crisis—the one in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt said … if I might, to the international dimension of the present crisis. At no time in our peacetime history has the state of … A resurgent American economy would do more to restore the confidence of the world in its own future than anything else …
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… States have come before the American people in times of crisis to talk about war or the threat of war. Today I am … our allies and friends have gained new strength and self-confidence. They are now able to participate much more fully … fighting, is not upset. Working behind the scenes, when a crisis arose in Jordan, the United States played a key role …
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… good sense--first in Berlin and later in the Cuban missile crisis-to turn back his threats and actions without war. Yet … freedom, of democracy, and of good faith. Today it has the confidence of the British people. It also has ours. They are … good sense--first in Berlin and later in the Cuban missile crisis-to turn back his threats and actions without war. Yet …
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… not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward … weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, … May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the …
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… It was irresponsible. And it plunged our economy into a crisis that put millions out of work, saddled us with more … over spilled milk. (Laughter and applause.) Now, I’m confident a farmer can contain a milk spill without a federal … for feeling a little cynical? The greatest blow to our confidence in our economy last year didn’t come from events …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… the administration. The Deputies Committee became the crisis management committee for the administration on foreign … about his operating style in a foreign policy episode or crisis. Is he directing people in a very hands-on fashion? Is … a very executive way. Another time I saw him engaged in a crisis situation was the riots. The state verdict came down …
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… its difficulties, and for this renewed expression of their confidence in my good intentions, I am at a loss for terms … enacted, and thereby promote and strengthen a proper confidence in those institutions of the several states and of … are fixed on our republic. The event of the existing crisis will be decisive in the opinion of mankind of the …
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… of all the ages. So he must be a strangely bold and self-confident eulogist who would attempt even on such an occasion … leadership wrought results which completely vindicated the confidence reposed in him. The complaint has been many times … taken the view of a true statesman regarding the impending crisis. The fact is that he had all along seen the struggle …
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… his sentiments and the nature of those duties which the crisis would devolve upon him the authorities of South … interest is neither to be concealed nor denied. This crisis presents a class of duties which is referable to … laws unlawful a sufficient number of persons in whom confidence might be placed could not be induced to accept the …