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… operations -Aristotle S. Onassis -Donald A. Nixon’s son -Dealings with Robert L. Vesco … -Timing -Democrats -Anderson -Hallamore Homes, Inc -Stock deal -Air West deal -[Forename unknown] Hillings -Ehrlichman … with Mitchell -Mitchell’s possible conversation with New Jersey state Senator Harry L. Sears -Central Intelligence …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… and Chicago and Virginia were in the forefront of the new ideas; they were really being propagated here. I ended up … of his DNA [deoxyribonucleic acid] growing up as sort of a New Deal liberal—that big business can’t be trusted at all, … I were summoned to meet with the teamsters. We’re in the Roosevelt Room with the teamsters. They’ve got these big, …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Bush in 1966 when he was a candidate for Congress in the new 7 th Congressional District on the west side of Houston. … so typical about a government letter. I owe Rose a great deal of credit about getting to the point, writing a clear, … for International Development] or other federal agencies dealing with foreign aid and the general question such that …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… [John F.] Kennedy was elected and after trying to deal with some of the foreign policy issues, in terms of the … the awakening in this country about the importance of dealing with this issue of race started to stir this pot. … of the time were called the Logues, [Edward J.] Logue from New Haven, another brother in Massachusetts, and they …
Public Events
… monthly Prospect. He was previously on staff at the New York Times, where he was editor in chief of both the … our country. Opposing central aspects of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” but then embracing social security and Medicare …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… could change with a single rifle shot. He grew up in New York City the son of Russian immigrants who didn't speak … how to drive a car but went straight from college at NYU [New York University] to North Africa and had seen a lot in a … a liberal Democrat and he grew up as a big [Franklin D.] Roosevelt supporter, an FDR supporter. But I think he also …
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… taxes low for all but the super rich. President Franklin Roosevelt, whose New Deal is rightly remembered as one of the high water marks …
Historically, a president’s first year in office has been an auspicious time for getting major tax and spending bills through Congress.
Presidential Recordings
… July-2010) Conversation No. 878-18 (cont’d) -Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. … No. 878-18 (cont’d) -Otto Von Bismark -Willy Brandt -New group -Pressure -European socialist state -Unification of … Lodge -Requirements of job on committee -Complexities -Dealings with other committees and committee members …
Presidential Recordings
… July-2010) Conversation No. 878-18 (cont’d) -Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. … No. 878-18 (cont’d) -Otto Von Bismark -Willy Brandt -New group -Pressure -European socialist state -Unification of … Lodge -Requirements of job on committee -Complexities -Dealings with other committees and committee members …
Presidential Recordings
… July-2010) Conversation No. 878-18 (cont’d) -Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. … No. 878-18 (cont’d) -Otto Von Bismark -Willy Brandt -New group -Pressure -European socialist state -Unification of … Lodge -Requirements of job on committee -Complexities -Dealings with other committees and committee members …
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… President George W. Bush had been considering how to deal with Iraq since his first meeting of the National … act. The United Nations approved a resolution for rigorous new arms inspections in Iraq in November 2002, and inspectors … other U.S. Presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt who relied on strong executive power to conduct war …
Iraq refused to comply with U.N. disarmament requirements and had the potential to produce weapons of mass destruction. So the Bush 43 administration considered Saddam Hussein’s regime a dangerous threat.
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… that are coming up every day, with never enough time to deal with any of them in the way you would like to. As I was … have, of course he did. Clinton was giving the speech in New York and we’d scheduled it some weeks in advance. The …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… percent, and we discussed what we ought to do to try to deal with that. My view was that you couldn’t do any one … a very good relationship with the White House. My person dealing with the White House was mainly Chuck Knapp, who was … bias. That was right out of the Old Testament and the New Testament . Economic justice—that was a strong conviction …
Presidential Biographies
… century. Truman's National Security Team Truman inherited Roosevelt's national security team, though he would transform … conclusion was exceedingly attractive; the added heft this new weapon might give to perceptions of U.S. power, while …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Party was, at its elite level, still trying to be a New Deal party and that at the electorate level, the New Deal …
Public Events
… History Program at the Miller Center and the author of a new book, "Inside the Clinton White House," drawn from more … decision-making as any first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt. What does the record of that tenure tell us about … condition, we have to do something. They called the new congressional leadership in, the congressional leadership …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… I grew up in a very small, rural community in upstate New York, a town by the name of Millerton, New York, which … talking about politics or policy. We wouldn’t have to deal with Mesopotamia. But she was deeply important to me and … to you, for people of my generation, just as [Franklin D.] Roosevelt had been for people of my parent’s generation, and …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… at reconciliation in the campaign. I had done a great deal of my thesis work in college when I was at Harvard on … I had studied Carter’s situation in Georgia and that whole new face election that took place in 1970 in which so many … historically who could fulfill both roles well. Franklin Roosevelt was an exception to that. But I think if you went …
Presidential Speeches
… on conservation of the nation's natural resources and a new energy department. Carter also addresses his ideas to … for its help in combining many of these agencies in a new energy department to bring order out of chaos. … will reduce the risk of future oil tanker spills and help deal with those that do occur. I also stated during my …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… hold them someplace that was not normal. So it wasn’t a Roosevelt Room kind of thing. We held one at the Blair House, … them out on a calendar for the first year with a great deal of specificity for the first six months’ calendar of … he knew what he was talking about and he knew what he was dealing with when people came in to brief him, et cetera.” …