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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Teddy over something we were competing for. I don’t know what it was, but I do remember having a physical rolling on … was 16, and I had asked Teddy if he could get her a job as a page the summer before last, and he said sure. He …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Young Let me say a few words about what we’re up to, what this project is about. Senator Kennedy … it by historians or political scientists, compared with what’s written about the Court or about the Presidency or …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in those meetings was that he was totally pragmatic: OK, what can we get done maybe not in the next day or two, but in … joiners. They’re used to dealing with people. Tell them what’s on your mind. Tell them what you think. It was not …
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… That’s just a minor footnote. He got on the Commission. What I was describing was ’73, and then by ’75 I knew that … a lot of people who had worked together became rivals for jobs. Of course those who were out front were the ones upon …
In this exclusive oral history with the Miller Center, former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski reflects on his time in the administration and his special relationship with President Carter
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… typed the fastest, and took shorthand always got the best jobs. I happened to sit next to Ted Kennedy at the … the decision was made it would be Ben Smith. No one knows what truly happened in that discussion, but at that time Ted … of the Mass Transportation Commission. As I began the job, I went to the Inaugural in Washington. I was walking …
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… from accountability for limited housing options and job prospects, as well as violence in low-income communities, … and municipal authorities in top-level positions. What might the United States look like today had federal … in Harlem, Donald Trump recognized the need to create jobs—“You have to create the kind of economy where people can …
The real—and perhaps the only—long-term solution to the dynamic Obama identified requires a major infusion of resources and policies that would empower residents in overpoliced communities to transform their own conditions on their own terms.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Grammar School. A big concern in my district was always jobs. There were never enough jobs. Around Christmas-time the … were you going to law school? Doherty I went to Suffolk. What I did was, once I got elected—this is sort of a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… think we need more information. It's the nature of our job. Knott That's right. Academics are neurotic. de Haan Then … F.] Kennedy Library, so I don't have a total record, but what I have will give most of the story from 1965 to 1978. … there. Knott That's what we love to hear. Let me explain what's going to happen. We hope that the people who …
Presidential Speeches
… University in in Shanghai, China. He asks the students what kind of world they want to live in and takes questions … ask, questions I asked when I was in college myself: "What kind of a world am I preparing myself for? Will I be …
Presidential Speeches
… Congress complies weeks later, providing $116 million in jobs for the estimated 4.5 million unemployed. … annual income but temporarily idle in the shift from one job to another. We have an average of about three … shall need to consider a number of other questions as to what action may be taken by the Government to remove Possible …
Oral History Interviews
| Gerald Ford Project… and the ground rules for these exploratory discussions; what the Ford White House did well and not so well; key … as you know—the purpose of the Miller Center—is to do what we are doing here: trying to combine, in a mutually …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I dealt with, and then things got, perhaps, historic—what ultimately became the Fair Housing Act of 1988 was a … And I’ve been blessed. I’ve had all kinds of wonderful jobs in life, the Supreme Court and the Justice Department. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… pushing Kennedy into this street fight, which is what it was. The candidate of the old guard, including the … happen right out of law school and what did he do in that job, et cetera. I don’t know. But I distinctly remember, …
Presidential Speeches
… of his American Rescue Plan and the proposed American Jobs Plan focused on infrastructure and the American Families … ever stay down. Americans always get up. Today, that’s what we’re doing: America is rising anew, choosing hope over … all going on, the economy created more than 1,300,000 new jobs in 100 days—more jobs in the first—(applause)—more jobs …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… no respect for human rights, where we had to worry about what to tell our children so that they would not repeat it in … major. For example, Natalya was immediately fired from her job. Young As soon as you applied for the visa? N. Katz As … the country, but they said, But your daughter is okay now. What’s the problem? N. Katz The Soviet doctors cured her. B. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Legal Defense Fund. That was a lucky break getting that job. It was supposed to be a one-year job. I stayed there for … other people who were involved with that campaign. Knott What about Bobby Kennedy? Any interactions with Bobby Kennedy …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… These people were raising their hands, saying, “This is what I think should be done,” and “This is what I think … in the Special Olympics and my dad in the Peace Corps, the Job Corps, the Legal Services Corporation. My dad, as a …
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… are expensive to treat. They can affect the kind of jobs people get and keep, how much work they can do, and how … rates than Flint, mostly as a result of paint hazards. What happened in Flint was outrageous—it deserves its own …
The next president should attack child lead poisoning by creating institutions that will keep the problem visible and by finding funding sources that are adequate to the large task of massively reducing lead hazards.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Refugees Subcommittee and as I kind of pushed to find out what the issue was, I learned that I would be the third white … that I tremendously admire about the Senator: he did his job. The Indian hearings didn’t get cameras, nor Freedom of …
Presidential Biographies
… meanwhile, finally saw that his son might have meant what he said about wanting to become a lawyer and arranged a … election to Democrat James Polk. Being out of a job, Fillmore looked for an opportunity that would keep him …