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… Bush spoke in favor of tax cuts as a way to create jobs and stimulate the economy. Opponents of such economic … robust federal plan from being enacted, something like to what was passed as the Affordable Care Act during Barack … Management Agency, “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” Despite the failures, Bush’s language seemed to …
Presidential Speeches
… Infrastructure Act. He talks about "finishing the job" on many of the efforts he began during his … every crisis stronger than when we entered it. That is what we are doing again. Two years ago, our economy was … To unite the country. We’ve been sent here to finish the job. For decades, the middle class was hollowed out. Too many …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… know I appreciate it. Healy I hope I can help you. Knott What will happen is in about three or four months you’ll get … mean, you know, I was covering—it was a hello-and-goodbye job. I mean I wasn’t—I really didn’t have any close …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… tie, and the Kennedy people were very interested in what I was doing in Hanoi. Jerry Tinker, who was on the … he was pushing the idea. Dale had been considered for a job as Assistant Secretary of State in the [Jimmy] Carter …
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… should be “energetic” for good government to exist. But what “are the ingredients which will constitute this energy,” … elders.” 3 Winning the presidency meant federal jobs for loyal party workers. Moreover, as historian Gil …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… back, and he talked about that—and then he talked about what he thought should be happening and what wasn’t happening … fellow that they called Up-Up McCarty, and Up-Up McCarty’s job was to precede Curley anyplace he went and say, if people …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… talk about this for a long time, I finally said, I know what you mean, and I’m going to go start that. The funny … 24/7, it’s easy for him to call on me on the details of what’s going on and what I’m hearing on the ground, so they …
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… I was, to answer that first question—Bob Haldeman was our—what they call now—White House Chief of Staff. But we did not … disdain, and he felt that they wouldn’t do a good job. Plus, the fact that the military do get transferred from …
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… type individual. But I had détente very much in mind. What I was fearful of was that Gorbachev—as I thought he had … awfully hard to do. It seems to me that they did their job. They said the situation is getting worse and worse and … press missed all that. They thought he was just an actor. “What are we going to do today, fellas?” I have the first …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Jr. Tell me about when you first met Ted Kennedy. What were your initial impressions of him? Marshall I … in Kennedy’s office. I got incredibly lucky, because those jobs don’t always pop up when you need them to pop up. …
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… someone does something about the rat, the housing, the job problem, the education problem. Medicine as such isn’t … in the U.S. health care system This, in short, was what structural racism in health care financing looked like. …
Johns Hopkins Hospital's medicalized relationship with its East Baltimore community was typical in postwar America.
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… garnering 55% of vote in 1952 and 57% in 1956. His job approval rating for his entire eight years in office … rule had led to a bloated state, big budget deficits, and what Ike called “socialism” or even the “dictatorship of the …
History professor Will Hitchcock explains why the Republican candidates should get to know Dwight Eisenhower.
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… learning about the Soviet Union, became a Kremlinologist, what books did you read? Who were your mentors? Were you … and I had never met Brzezinski before they both offered me jobs. Actually it was Scowcroft who made the call for …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… July 8, 2005 Knott Let me just explain what will happen. In about three or four months you’ll … with their problems. Knott Could you tell us how your job evolved over the long period that you were with the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Club. He turned first to one of the professors and said, What’s your specialty? The professor said, I do textile … I was working nights to do the writing and analysis for my job at GW. I did the work for Ted in his office. I didn’t …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… observations, some of which came later. The first is what he'd said quite a lot of times, directly or indirectly. … for something. You want your boss to know you did a good job, or at least it wasn't you who did a bad job, and you'd …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… When did you first meet [Edward M.] Kennedy, and what were your first impressions of him? Manley Well, I had … in Gloucester or something else for the Worcester area, my job was to get it out and get it out quickly. Heininger Well, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a great honor. Knott Could you tell us a little bit about what you were doing before you ran for the House? Dingell I … thing, but it was never my bag. But I had 27 full-time jobs. I was Assistant Adjutant Military Personnel Officer. I … committee. I’m now the ranking minority member; it’s my job to lead the Democrats, and they seem to be happy with my …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… Knott Thanks. We enjoy doing it. It’s a very interesting job. Kuhn You both have a very important job. I’ll say this … hired to do it and in the end it’s important, I think of what all of you do, it is so important. I mean, you’re educators, and what’s more important than that? Knott Thank you. Kuhn So you …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for agreeing to do this, Senator. We really appreciate it. What we hope is that people will approach this differently … I thought, Well, that will probably be a better summer job—and it was just for the summer—than I could find clerking …