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Presidential Speeches
… Representatives of the 23d of March last, requesting the President to lay before the House "the authority and the true … be enforced or those guaranties complied with because the President may believe that the right of suffrage or any other … be turned into the instrument of their destruction. The President would become, in fact, the great constitution maker …
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… Inaugural Address, confronted by a dim economic outlook, President Ronald Reagan declared his intention to reverse the … Inaugural Address, confronted by a dim economic outlook, President Ronald Reagan declared his intention to reverse the … from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, including Iranian Presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well …
In his First Inaugural Address, confronted by a dim economic outlook, President Ronald Reagan declared his intention to reverse the course of government expansion by stating: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Thirty years later—with both political parties holding power for extended periods of time—the size and scope of the United States government has reached a new apex. In short, the end of “the era of big government” has not come to pass.
Presidential Biographies
… leaders who were against John Adams's run for the presidency. Adams served as vice president under Washington. As was the aristocratic custom of …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with reference to civil rights at home and abroad. Kennedy President [Ronald] Reagan was elected. In 1982, we were faced … very important and very effective. Then we had a veto by President Reagan, but we overrode it. I guess that was …
Presidential Biographies
… American people have remembered him as one of the greatest presidents in the nation’s history. The name of the Capitol … Washington inspired made possible the creation of the presidency and helped establish the executive branch. Once in … of political provocations, and attempted to serve as a president for all citizens (which admittedly meant white …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… about the ’88 campaign–and its relation to the Bush presidency, particularly your role in it. Baker I would begin … tooteth, is that right? Well that was the election that President Bush, Vice President Bush, won to make him … Baker I think Teeley was the press person at the Vice President’s office rather than at the campaign. I bet he was …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… were saying that you had looked, last night late, at the President's memoir and Hank Paulson's book. Bolten I knew we … we would not survive the final three years of the Bush Presidency without a financial crisis, and that John Snow, …
Presidential Speeches
… Memorial in Washington, D.C., Truman becomes the first President to address the NAACP. He states there is no …
Presidential Biographies
… Harry S. Truman became President of the United States with the death of Franklin D. … rights. Historians now rank Truman among the nation's best Presidents. Student and Soldier Harry Truman was a child of … one term, was defeated for a second, and then became presiding judge in 1926, a position he held until 1934. As …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I was doing some research work for him) was nominated by President [Lyndon] Johnson to be an Assistant Secretary of … time, but he loved to do it, because he had done it for President Kennedy. So he knew all the tricks. It was a … the Chappaquiddick piece. The aftermath of it, the Nixon Presidency—politics were turning nasty by then. Ted would …
Presidential Biographies
… end of the year, Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for president. Public reaction to his candidacy revealed that … States. A political insider, he was appointed to the vice presidency by Richard Nixon and consented to by the Congress …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… and he would look at me and say, "Listen, big boy. I'm [President Dwight D.] Eisenhower; you're [Andrew] Goodpaster. … W.] Bush v. [Albert] Gore, when Bush was finally declared President-elect, two of the people that had mentored me—one … approach associated with [Donald H.] Rumsfeld and Vice President [Richard B.] Cheney. That was the context into …
Presidential Biographies
… During his presidency, President Bush devoted much of his time to foreign affairs, an area over which Presidents generally have more latitude than they do with …
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… the leading force in Sunni Islam. You have to see a both President Erdoğan’s speech today and all the statements that … should be subject to physical force. What did you make of President Erdoğan's statement on October 23? Edelman: Well, you're certainly right President Erdoğan is no paragon—for the rule of law and, in …
What you have to understand here is that this takes place in the context of a very serious rivalry for leadership in the region and the Arab states. And now inside the world of Sunni Islam, there is a rivalry between Turkey and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to see who will be the leading force in Sunni Islam. You have to see a both President Erdoğan’s speech today and all the statements that Turkish media have made based on leaks from Turkish intelligence and police sources in that light.
Presidential Speeches
… In this speech given by President-elect Harding early in 1921, he underscored President George Washington’s admonition in his 1796 …
Public Events
… A compilation of the many perspectives and insights about President Donald Trump, from both before and after his … PAST YEAR’S WILD RIDE BEFORE AND AFTER THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. WELCOME BACK TO AMERICAN FORUM, I'M …
Presidential Biographies
… The Campaign and Election of 1868: President Abraham Lincoln's assassination at the end of the … Grant claimed that he had little interest in the presidency, but popular demand for his candidacy was too …
Presidential Biographies
… always been central to him, from his childhood through his presidency. By his own account, he has few close friends … been married three times and divorced twice, the only US president with that marital history. Republican president … to have been divorced and re-married, while a number of presidents married for a second time (three did so while in …
Donald Trump has stated throughout his life that family has always been central to him...
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Bobby Kennedy announced that he was going to run for the Presidency that year. I knew a couple of people who knew some … Kennerly, who in later years when [Gerald] Ford became President, was Ford’s personal photographer. I said to John …
Presidential Speeches
… President Johnson justifies his decision to resume airstrikes …