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Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… thing. Helpful to history, but not an earth-shattering event. I'd go to work every day wondering, Is this what I … Well, you said that with Gore, you were always cutting and pasting mechanically. The way you describe Clinton it's … many different circles that every conference call, every event, was a debate over what kind of person, what kind of …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… court here? Young Sure. That is an interesting, unusual event, a little piece of history. Were you also going to talk … to be no sign of potential turmoil. Mandela, despite his past record as a revolutionary, was clearly on a new path to … it certainly wasn’t that big a deal for Republicans in any event. All the other Carter judicial nominees were clearly …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… gave us hell, joking about something that happened or some event. One time during the immigration issue there was a … McCain Not on that amendment. I think it was a seminal event when we passed that amendment that prohibited cruel and … would have made a sincere effort, and because of his past relationships with a lot of Republicans, including a guy …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… whole family. I don’t remember ever, a single political event taking place in our home, either Cape Cod or in … down there with him sailing. That is sort of the past, but as recently as last night, we went over to this— … School, been over there for grandparents day, and at book events here for their school. For Kylie and Teddy at the …
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| George W. Bush Project… I didn’t meet with the President. Previously I was at an event—he was doing a fund-raiser for Jeb in Washington at a … time to do it either. “The President is going to do an event Thursday. Put it together.” “Well, can I first learn … 2002 Christmas party. We had just had a big faith-based event. It was my biggest deal in 2002. I felt like OK, after …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a speech that had some real connection to the course of events, which it did at the time. Heininger As you’re looking … did, but it was still very much in the context of official events and going to markets, which looked fine and healthy. …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Leader, and I had an immense regard for him. In any event, I got involved with these kinds of things and did my … important, but there are a variety of things. In any event, they got to see a little bit more of what he was like, … many aspects of what happened that were determined by the events. You have a very long expansion—people never like a …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… involved in--We do a lot of what we call "cultivation events," trying to get big donors interested. Riley Sure. … makes a difference." And so we did. Sometimes it was a big event, and sometimes it would be something with her husband, … stealing things. I guess there had been a President in the past, after an election, where the staff would start carrying …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… been the Senate leader on civil rights debates over the past few years." To prove it to them, I literally xeroxed … to state without reservation that Senator Kennedy over the past 25 years has been consistently spectacular on civil … confirmation battles would have been decided over the past two decades and dozens of Supreme Court precedents would …
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| Bill Clinton Project… for Civil Rights. Gilmour Was there any precipitating event while you were in the Nixon administration that … further to the right. People like Kuchel just couldn’t get past the primary. They could win in November. Tom Kuchel … Just talk a little bit about that. That was a very unusual event. Panetta When I first got into Congress I became a …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was watching. I think it was more like a sporting event; people were glued to the television to watch this … I said we’d go into a number of areas we had in the past: the 14th Amendment and the rest. Knott Would you say he … personality than Bork? Kennedy Yes. We had the sequence of events where we were going to vote on him, and then we heard …
Presidential Recordings
… -Minimum tax -Congress -Chowder and Marching Society event -Ehrlichman -Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen -Feedback on … No. 860-15 (cont’d) -Ehrlichman’s recommendations -Social events with Congress members -Evenings at the White House … -Defensiveness -Administration’s response to Congress -Past economic aid -Peace with Japan, Germany -Announcement …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… February 14, 2009. We’re picking up, Nick, on some key events of 1997. Littlefield Right. I’m going to lead into … wage increase in the first two years of Gingrich. In any event, when he got back to Washington in the fall of ’96, … Senators who had supported children’s issues in the past, were active on healthcare, had shown independence, or …
Presidential Recordings
… -Reading -Lack of warmth -Young people -Potential for more events for young people -Identification with administration … White House -An Orange County, California group -Noted in past new summaries -Opinions -Ivy League -Blue-collar youth … Brigham Young University -Support for the President -News events -Coverage -Talking points -Small groups -Receiving …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… have no idea, but I’m telling you. People want to make the past a lot more beautiful than it was, but it was harmonious. … [Kennedy] and—they send out invitations to come to special events, like his birthday. Seventy-five? I thought it was 72. …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… you have a sense of particular Press Secretaries in the past as being people who had done well in the sort of thing … in my way—I’m not nearly so sure. I think the days are past when you could sum up a fairly eclectic and diverse and … on down, come to serve in the White House over the past few weeks. I suppose if things had been as David thought …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… great about working for the Senator, when it comes to big events—whether it was the impeachment trial or [John] … very little that we got out of the research we did on the past impeachment that gave practical guidelines about how to … else if you look at his record over the course of the past 20-30 years. The thing that really, really irked the …
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| Bill Clinton Project… quickly. Brain Right, yes, and I guess that’s a seminal event in Republican history, congressional history, from the … politics of trade have changed dramatically in the past 10-15 years. Okay, but what happens if Clinton comes out … of Congress who voted for it. On paper it was a bipartisan event; it’s open to every member of Congress who had voted …
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| George W. Bush Project… motion a chain of unforeseen and I would say unforeseeable events that included the rise of Hezbollah. So from Lebanon … do nothing to surprise us or to try to force our hands or events.” Meaning don’t start a war we’re not ready for. So I … We did coordinate with him and his office on a number of events, including an August 2002 gathering of senior …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… a great facility down there. I’ve dealt with them in the past. Zelikow Now, let me go through the ground rules. First, … at length your own views on what happened in all these events, compiled in a systematic way. They’ll get fragments, … in the ground rules. You have a lot of control over this event. We do not play gotcha or try to trap you into things …