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… a concerted effort, in a grand design. I have reviewed the past and the present efforts of our Federal Government to … to the farmers, they have done a magnificent job in the past, and we should be eternally grateful. This Government, … to meet the needs of our economy and that in no event will a credit crunch occur. The prime lending rate is …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Drug Control Strategy every year, it was a huge press event. William Bennett, the drug czar, was kind of a rock … where he admitted some sort personal problems in his past. Weich No. That’s right. I remember the speech. I played … you that he’s quite mainstream in lots of ways. But in any event, Kennedy and leadership, he’s never—he ran for …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… used to go with Kennedy to Boston where we would go do an event and EMK would be picketed by the IRA supporters like … in. It turned out—I didn’t know this until after the event was over, because I had gone in a back door with … of humor. Once, we went to the National Archives for an event a long time ago, when I first started, and I was …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Bookending that summer were, for you history buffs, two events. I don’t know if you remember what they were. They … But she says, I went to work and I advanced the event and we turned out three hundred delegates and … Defense Fund event, or maybe one of the Governor’s events, and not only did Bill speak—and I had already seen …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that became the Irish Catholic seat on the court. In any event, because of my father’s example, I grew up with a sense … about the Kennedys? Kirk It’s about the confluence of events. I told this story, first when named Irishman of the … about whether to take on Russell Long or not, so this is past history to me. But I had the sense that the Senate was …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a different color. I think most of them had long gotten past that. Now maybe their parents or even their grandparents … want to bother Marvella [Bayh]. Somewhere about 2:30—this event was going on. Rocks are being thrown through the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to 1:00 am most nights. I should mention one very poignant event that occurred in the campaign. I had a press release to … this speech and everything’s locked. I was walking back past the front door to go to my car when the door opened and … office and asked that he not come or just not come to that event, that there were mobs all over the place and they …
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… Miller Center director and CEO writes about how past presidencies dealt with the big issues—and how they will … 2020, through their writings, media outreach, and public events. 1. Presidents and opportunity. At the current … be announced...stay tuned—who will write, participate in events, and provide ongoing commentary across the year about …
Miller Center director and CEO writes about how past presidencies dealt with the big issues—and how they will impact next year's election
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… arrange a meeting, or whatever. My understanding of the events that led up to it was, after the Senator was involved … was frail. And he was—this person had been hurt over the past year, trying to mend his back and so on. So I knew I … anything. Not that I’m seeking to add. It was just—these events are—I can tell you this one was—because he knew it. He …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… earlier. I had been back to Washington and invited to events and met him then. I’m not sure if he really knew me. … anniversary of Walt Disney and there was a big White House event in Florida and I was in charge of it. When the … the President coming out of the Oval Office and walking past if the doors were open. So we wrote a commercial and …
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… Should Not Hire Members of the Trump Administration , Paste , August 9 How should universities handle the Trump … All Things Considered , August 17 Short expected to plan events, draw GOP voices to Miller Center , The Daily Progress …
Exploring the many sides on the appointment of Marc Short as a senior fellow at the Miller Center.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… we could see each other and give each other a hug. In any event, we received this very welcome invitation to dinner and … were funny stories we would have shared over the years past. I can't remember precisely what the stories were. I … valuable insight and invited me to come to a couple of events that were going to happen. One was a fund-raising …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… redistricting as much as legislative bodies have. In any event, it was a very winnable district for a Republican, and … but the American government thinks differently too. In any event, I offered to work in his campaign and in the summer of … because I’m convinced he is not a man who dwells in the past, all the sort of things that a book writer or an …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… analysis, Reagan probably did a quarter of the number of events that Clinton did, a quarter of the number of … indigestible to the American public. There were so many events, so many messages, so many things being put out that … five seats. You had that in '94 as well: a confluence of events happening at the same time. And Clinton's numbers were …
Presidential Recordings
… of next year’s issues -Summary of action-forcing events -1972 election -Emphasis -Action needed -Polls … -Timing -Effect on results -Correlation with national events -Nature of questions -Use of information -Need for … agency conflict -Economic impact -Need for balance -Past gains -Air bags -Speedup of problem solving -Job …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Act reauthorization or something, I’m not sure. In any event, one of the first things we did was to work on a new … been turned into No Child Left Behind recently. In any event, the Act of 1994 broadly reformed federal educational … and Kennedy was sworn into office. It was a big Kennedy event. Then when Kennedy gave his speech, it was covered live …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… that he was in exceptionally good health. His significant past history included a minor urological procedure 10 years … laboratory data and noted that on two occasions within the past year his hematocrit had transiently fallen (the ratio of … the onset of a dementia. But about two weeks after that event, he’s back in and he gets up out of bed and Mrs. Reagan …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… them on the fingers of one hand. In fact, once you get past Robert Pear and maybe Julie Rovner, a few others, it … wasn’t the public picture of what was happening. In any event, I think that it was an attempt to do too much too … Goddard/Clausen, a great firm. They had principally in the past done Democratic candidates for public office. Ben …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… time as ACDA Director, where he details the major events of his tenure, from his difficult confirmation … going to be anything. So I went. That really was a great event because we gave a black tie dinner, which we do at … House—we didn’t go all the time, there were some rare events. We were on the Truman balcony there, this must have …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… asserting that Carter could have been a great president if events such as the energy shortage and the Iran hostage … and that sort of thing, just to brief us all on certain events. But I really felt that that accessibility was … place in this country of ours. Then there is a series of events where I’m attacked. I resign, the person ostensibly …