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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… as an energy expert, and I had strong feelings that if [Jimmy] Carter were the candidate the Democrats would lose, so I … find somebody else who could win, because I didn't think Carter could win. That cemented the relationship. I was one …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… very hopeful about the prospects for action when President Carter was elected in 1976, and again when President Clinton … You also mentioned some things about Kennedy and [Jimmy] Carter, which I think belong in the oral history record. And …
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… worked for the National Security Council under President Jimmy Carter. Secretary of State Warren Christopher was a veteran of the Carter and Nixon administrations. Powell stayed on as …
New presidents face surprise international crises. So in the primaries, should foreign policy experience matter?
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… the world. Even the dour Richard Nixon and buttoned-down Jimmy Carter expressed more optimism than the contemporary …
It's a pretty surprising quality that dates back to Dwight Eisenhower
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… President Reagan cannot speak for himself. President [Jimmy] Carter can obviously speak for himself as can President … support Reagan because he was disaffected with President Carter. He came to see me about being an expert witness in a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I had been working on with some people, helping President [Jimmy] Carter. The other was when I had gotten out of law school and …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… is a very tough, difficult position. Jack Watson, in the Carter administration, deemed it the chief javelin catcher in … walked in with my wife, Donna, and she said, I know what Jimmy’s talking about. He’s talking about those legal bills. … was new to Washington, too—not new, but he was like Jimmy Carter, like Ronald Reagan, they were both— McLarty Neither …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in his campaign. We were enthusiastically for him over Jimmy Carter, but I didn’t have a personal relationship with …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… are lifelong friends. Our closest friend there is probably Jimmy Lai. I don't know if you know him. He is sort of the … guy. Our family is very intertwined. When we first met Jimmy he had founded this clothing chain called Giordano's. … for that jacket, it would just be whatever came up. Before Jimmy, you had an economy where some of the people bought …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for a long time. It had been difficult with President [Jimmy] Carter. Until President Clinton came in, in 1993, the … tap here and there sometimes, as he said. In challenging Carter in ’76, he said, We’re sailing against the wind now, …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… long connected with Democrats and briefly worked in the [Jimmy] Carter White House for about five months and was involved in … to be bipartisan. The idea that is ginned up is to involve Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford together in cochairing it. …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… But then, I’ve also observed the relationship between [Jimmy] Carter and [Walter] Mondale, which was light-years different. … to be a competition within the campaign staff—I remember Carter’s quite well, Jack Watson versus Ham [Hamilton] …
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… outsider presidents controlled both houses of Congress. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama all rode into office … Trump’s. Each struggled to move an agenda with Congress. Carter most famously captured this in his own Miller Center …
The director of the Miller Center reflects on the next presidency
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… said he was either the new manager or the manager of the Carter Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, owned by the Pick … and play six nights a week at the Petite Café in the Carter Hotel. The Carter Hotel was sort of a second-class … talk politics. We all felt the same way. We all felt that Jimmy Carter—whom I later admired as a very fine person, and …
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… presidency. In the wake of our withdrawal from Vietnam, Jimmy Carter avoided military conflict. But his presidency …
The next president must weigh carefully the decision to go to war
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… was a transition group for the Legislative Affairs of the [Jimmy] Carter White House. They would find out what the ongoing … to eliminate the so-called Merit Commissions that Carter had set up? Fielding Yes, yes. Thank you for reminding …
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… road before. Efforts to normalize relations during the Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton presidencies came to naught, …
The history and the future of US-Cuban relations
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… downhill later on and CIEP was eventually abolished by [Jimmy] Carter, but that was our administration’s fault. So I … Schmidt is a man of great quality and class. He hated Jimmy Carter. He had nothing but contempt for Carter. Riley …
Presidential Biographies
… by the Chicago Tribune to rate all the Presidents through Jimmy Carter in five categories: leadership qualities, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… they’re entirely too confusing.” At that point, the [Jimmy] Carter administration was not anxious to bite the bullet on …