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… confidence -Dunlop -View of economic problems -Optimism -Dealings with labor -Railroads -Rubber -Shultz -Work with … -Press coverage -John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt -Impact on public -POW statements -George S. … -Committee's questions -Watergate -Gray's instructions -Deal between Richard G. Kleindienst and James O. Eastland …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… from university life to be the director of the relatively new Office of Technology Assessment, which I had come to know … of Congress and members of the Senate that you were dealing with, what would you assess their scientific literacy … of the issue and of the options that Congress has to deal with that issue. To do that analysis, we have to bring …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… queried about whether they had anybody to recommend for a new position in the White House counsel’s office. The counsel … about something Dick had done in the past—some business deal. Jonathan Kwitny was the writer. I represented Dick. …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… as long as Arafat—Isn’t that the essence of what we’re dealing with? This country, that country, it doesn’t make any … during the day with her staff, when they were trying to deal with specific things, compared to other Governors. I … In the morning he had a briefing with Bob Mueller, the new head of the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation], to …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… in the field. Feigenbaum Sure. Well, I had grown up in New York City, and I had some sense of the world, because my … policy had moved away from all that, to terrorism and dealing with al-Qaeda in the first instance, but then …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… back and look at the context--Iowa, of course, first, then New Hampshire--Massachusetts in that year was the first big … The ability to-- Kaufman Presidential politics is a big deal. Emotion still plays a part and, as candidates prove, …
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… paralyzed national discourse on race in America, and our new chief executive can validate his campaign claims to be a … paralyzed national discourse on race in America, and our new chief executive can validate his campaign claims to be a …
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… and how he decided what to grab hold of and get into. His dealings with other Senators across the aisle and within his … reducing the numbers of staffers. I don’t know what the deal was. When I went on there, there were essentially two … Pickering. I went to the embassy and said, I’m the new foreign policy advisor for Senator Kennedy, I’d love to …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… I’m Jim Young. Baker I’m Nancy Baker. I’m a professor at New Mexico State University and fascinated with the attorney … the only guy who could actually work with Thornburgh and deal with his crowd there. Some of his staff were …
Presidential Biographies
… be attacked but a visible and vocal representative of the new American woman who was emerging in the financial and … of a nationalized health care system. Although Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosalynn Carter had also tried to take on … Vince Foster, profits earned from a particular financial deal, the Paula Jones sex scandal, and dubious contacts …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… took office we, the Commission, went to see the new administration. We didn’t get a meeting with the … standard variety. Adlai Stevenson was a saint, Eleanor Roosevelt was a saint, Franklin Roosevelt was a saint. I was …
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… Imagine a new president who sets a tone of governance among a team of … Imagine a new president who sets a tone of governance among a team of … vast experiences with government administration during the New Deal and World War II years, Americans once knew how to …
Imagine a new president who sets a tone of governance among a team of top-flight senior managers who are determined to restore the confidence and trust that Americans once had in their great public institutions.
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… that all made. Berkowitz Like FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] not getting into Porcellian [Club]. Edelman But … Riley Kent, do you want— Germany One question I had was dealing with what sort of Judaism your family practices. … since. I’m now the board president of something called the New Israel Fund, which is quite a substantial organization, a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… are all basically descendants of FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt], were, Let’s set up a government agency, give it … House members are only—I’m not telling you anything new—they’re members of one committee, and so they tend to be … and all the rest of that. We’ll take a third and do the deal. Give half of it to the kids; see if I care. Let …
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… of imminent attacks with nuclear weapons on Washington, New York, LA, and Chicago. Those were just flooding into the … in the same category as Lincoln lifting habeas corpus, Roosevelt interning the Japanese. There was a fear for the … Robert Gates had to deal with the aftermath of 9/11 when he became Secretary of …
Who thought, on September 12th, that we would go more than 10 years without another successful attack? Nobody believed that. All Americans believed there was going to be another attack.
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… that he (Howard) had made some miscalculations on the Hill dealing with liberals—and negatively exposing himself with … about his problems shaped in any way how you attempted to deal with some of these other people in the White House later … Walcott What did you do about that, coming in as the new guy? Griffin I just glossed over it. I did as much as I …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… the war. That started the exodus, and the machinery and new technologies and all that change—things became very … got to do to get rid of hired help. They’ve just got to deal with the economics of these capital costs. If they …
Presidential Speeches
… Congress, my fellow Americans. In January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation. And he … was on the march. War was raging in Europe. President Roosevelt’s purpose was to wake up Congress and alert the … periods in the nation’s history. We have. It doesn’t make new, but in a — news — in a thousand cities and towns, the …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Franklin I think it was mostly Pennsylvania and New York, because I had earlier lived in New York—places … and you see—Let me backtrack for a minute. I had to deal with the systems that were already there too, which …
Presidential Recordings
… K. Javits -John B. Connally -Nixon Democrat -Drafting of new list -HEW jobs -Social Security Administration [SSA] … Broadcasting [CPB] -Government scrutiny -Drop in stock -Dealings with administration -Influence of Clay T. (“Tom”) …