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Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… talk, and the word came in that there was some monetary crisis. So I got on the phone, I talked to Arthur Burns, … and the press is screaming and yelling, There’s a big crisis. What are you going to do? Well, I’ve been thinking … not instilling the younger generation with a great deal of confidence in how the government is run. Anderson It’s true, …
Presidential Speeches
… sensibility to this transcendent proof, of the confidence of my fellow-citizens; and have thence too little … to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be … opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public …
Presidential Speeches
… fraught with danger and uncertainty, he expresses great confidence in the commitment of American government, the … To be back among so many friends is a happy one. I am confident that that friendship will continue. Our … in world affairs has long depended in part upon foreign confidence in our ability to pay. A series of executive …
Presidential Speeches
… possible. It’s how we recovered from the worst economic crisis in generations. It’s how we reformed our health care … each other as a people? Or will we face the future with confidence in who we are, in what we stand for, in the … in you, the American people. And that’s why I stand here confident as I have ever been that the State of our Union is …
Presidential Biographies
… provisions of the law. Grant broke with the President. The crisis flared up again, however, on February 21, 1868, when … Johnson would have been summarily removed in a vote of no confidence. Almost all Republicans agreed that Johnson was …
Presidential Speeches
… party is an expression of regard and a pledge of continued confidence for which it is difficult to make adequate … since these words were spoken. Have those to whom was confided the direction of the Government kept their pledges? … has the approval of the country. The sudden and terrible crisis in China calls for the gravest consideration, and you …
Public Events
… Those sort of fade away in a big foreign—in a big terror crisis or foreign policy crisis. And so, that will be—we haven’t experienced one of … but you wrote today in The Weekly Standard of a crisis of confidence, nerve, and understanding that’s upon us. And you …
Public Events
… conflict that could escalate to war. With the North Korea crisis potentially coming to a head, can Xi Jinping and … generation on decision-making in times of international crisis. He argues that the stunning rise of China presents a … time—at least in my lifetime—a serious challenge to our confidence that democratic capitalism is the only right …
Presidential Speeches
… friendship and trust. For fourteen years I have placed my confidence in the citizens of Massachusetts—and they have generously responded by placing their confidence in me. Now, on the Friday after next, I am to … born. Its principles have guided our footsteps in times of crisis as well as in times of calm. Its democratic …
Presidential Speeches
… for some time under its advisement, a speedy answer may be confidently expected. From the character of the points still … the matter to an early conclusion, I look with entire confidence to a prompt and satisfactory termination of the … which a course really right and demanded by a financial crisis may in a community like ours be pursued, however …
Presidential Speeches
… The seal of these men indicates that they have sure confidence that they will have voice in the administration of … York. No one knows it causes better than you. That the crisis was so great that many of the leading banks sought … True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Deputy Assistant to the President; Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council; Assistant to the President; Director of the USA Freedom Corps … Bridgeland discusses numerous aspects of Bush’s domestic agenda and the “compassionate … Connecting national service to the dropout crisis to the public land crisis--authorized. The …
Presidential Speeches
… the American people at this moment is to overcome this crisis. What our people need is the restoration of their … their debt obligations to us. Finally, with the desperate crisis abroad, the whole world scrambled to convert their … effect of worldwide fear upon our credit system and on the confidence of the Nation which thereby suddenly undermined …
Presidential Speeches
… "They concern, thank God, only material things." Our crisis today is the reverse. We have found ourselves rich in … tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them. To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. To … our purpose, cautious of the dangers; but sustained by our confidence in the will of God and the promise of man. …
Presidential Speeches
… to ease the misery and the pain of the monumental human crisis which has befallen the people of Vietnam. Millions … placed their trust in America. I cannot believe that this confidence was misplaced and that suddenly America will deny … our national history. And as I look down the road, I see a confident America, secure in its strengths, secure in its …
Presidential Speeches
… dignity or decency. Two years ago this month, a financial crisis on Wall Street devastated American families on Main … economy suffered an enormous blow during the financial crisis, crippling markets and deferring the dreams of … come through a difficult decade, I stand here before you confident in the future -- a future where Iraq is governed by …
Presidential Speeches
… and I've had my time in the klieg lights. You know, I'm confident, you know, you'll catch me opining on occasion, but … difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis, and in so doing, some of that money went into Wall …
Presidential Speeches
… effort. And having just experienced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people are … Some have already provided additional troops, and we're confident that there will be further contributions in the … just, our resolve unwavering. We will go forward with the confidence that right makes might, and with the commitment to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Assistant to Senator Edward Brooke; Executive Director of the Leadership Council on Civil Rights … voting rights issues. Neas also discusses the composition of the Senate as it pertains to civil rights issues. He then … for education, helped resolve New York City's 1975 fiscal crisis and played a key role in funding foreign policy …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… gives a comprehensive look at the role and organization of the White House Counsel's Office during the Reagan years, … into political life and his rise from a page in the House of Representatives to his service as a special assistant, and … He discusses his accomplishments as General Counsel of the Treasury Department for the first Reagan term, and his …