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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… beginning? Tell me about how you first met Edward Kennedy. What were your impressions of him? Joel Packer I probably met the Senator back in the late '70s. My first job in Washington was as a lobbyist for what's now called the United States Student Association. We …
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… U.S. military must increase its strength so it can do its job and bring our soldiers home. … about our effort in Somalia. Why are we still there? What are we trying to accomplish? How did a humanitarian … has led us to continue our mission. It is not our job to rebuild Somalia's society or even to create a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… committee meeting in the Capitol my first days on the job. The conference committee was composed of members of the … Reagan was trying to move everything into block grants, what was Kennedy’s role on education issues? Jennings I don’t … up. Those are his outstanding characteristics. Heininger What’s your sense about the staff he has used through the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… start to cry. Heininger OK, we won’t start with Sarah. What we’re going to do is start with, when did you first meet … moved to Albany. My husband went first and I finished up a job I was doing here, which I will tell you about because it …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… May 15, 2009. Why don’t we start by having you talk about what your relationship was with other Kennedy family members … I said, Yes, Mrs. Shriver? She said, You know that your job with Teddy is also much broader than just that. We had a …
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… a president-elect to pressure American companies to keep jobs and factories in the U.S. And in modern times, … Civil War; Franklin Delano Roosevelt for opening federal jobs to African Americans in the 1940s; John F. Kennedy for … to confront the power of citizens and the media recording what appeared to be police misconduct toward a citizen, when …
Donald Trump’s presidency offers an extraordinary opportunity to advance the paralyzed national discourse on race in America, and our new chief executive can validate his campaign claims to be a racially tolerant figure working for the success of all Americans—without alienating his core supporters.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I was growing up on Long Island in New York, you would get what were called Kennedy quarters. People would take quarters … and covering high school sports at night, and got my first job in Anne Arundel County, which is the county that …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and I was only the first from California. Can you imagine what he thought? I’m going to give her something she’ll never … the President that he had confidence that he would get the job done, and the President was unwavering. I think that …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… don’t you tell me when you first met [Edward] Kennedy and what your initial impressions of him were. Kalicki I met him … Kalicki It was a great challenge. It was a combination. My job in Policy Planning was to worry about China and Korea …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I’d been there for eight years. I’d done mostly editing jobs, and I came back to be the chief Congressional … for him to review. Every now and then they’d call me about what they were trying to find for him. The institutional …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Act efforts. The Clinton folks were fascinated by what we were doing. I remember Bill Clinton telling me that … the Platform Drafting Subcommittee, which was a difficult job. Issues like Tel Aviv being the capital of Israel—moved …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the hospital. He wanted the doctors, who really knew what was going on, to show him through rather than the … Rashi for a recommendation. Rashi recommended me for the job, which is how I ended up being offered that job. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and, for the most part, men were doing substantive jobs. You were an anomaly. Robinson I had been the secretary … having a drink at lunch. I recall the Senator mentioning what poor taste this was. When the official walked out, he …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the beginning. Tell me when you first met Ted Kennedy, and what were your impressions of him. Riley I’m sure I shook … very close to him, and he pressured me into taking that job, which was a terrible job under those circumstances. … you reach standards, then, remains with the state. That’s what’s important, how you reach them, and that’s in every …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I thought we might talk a bit about the ground rules and what we’re going to do with this and what your opportunities … have a majority right from the start. He works at that job. There’s no secret about his ability. And whatever they …
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… they—that part of it was the housing message, and that what—as you know, I've been interested in [President Johnson acknowledges throughout] both for jobs and in housing to see if we couldn't have some tax … maybe you can be helpful to us, and if you think that—see what they do with their approach. They're going to try—they …
Secret White House recordings reveal a year quickly unraveling for President Lyndon Johnson
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… analysis. He was impressed by that, but that wasn’t what drove him. His instincts on these social programs were … way to achieve that goal without placing undue burdens on job-creating employers was the challenge. Working, sometimes …
All four presidents from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton whose administrations’ histories have been published as part of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program either faced a challenge or launched an initiative during their first year in office relating to the expansion of opportunity in the service of greater social and economic mobility.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… 1979. I only went into politics in 1977. I was given the job of developing communications in Ireland with the outside … '79 I decided to take the whole family on holidays to--what do you call it, where they live? Stephen Knott Hyannis … amount of American investment, and have done for years. What's going to Europe comes here, because they can …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Mathias Oh, certainly. He was clearly in opposition to what was still in those days the old southern leadership … and helped him to get up to the ballot box, and they said, What’s your name? And he said, Thomas Alexander Contee Hanson …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… when I went to the bookstore and ordered it, my college— What was the price?—$6.95 for the book. This was 1972 it was … or even much of a Senator’s time, but that was our job. The majority of those issues, staff would be able to …