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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in World War II. I guess everyone knows that story, about what happened just as he was slated to go home. He had … out of my mind. I went racing over to him and exclaimed, What’s going on? Then Sarge Shriver came running up and said, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… don’t know how—so it was a matter of convincing me it was what I should do, and he did a great job. Mark Schneider ran into the room to do something, and he …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… President Kennedy is said to have called and asked, What’s going on, what’s happening? The response: Teddy looks …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… amusing to me, because some of the staff didn’t know what an urban school superintendent does, or that while I was … Paul Wellstone to be my floor leader. He did a fabulous job. There was another surprise. The Senate gallery was …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… That’s a silly response. I ought to at least find out what it is . I talked to her the next morning and she said it … or with Senator Kennedy, or his office—and I got the job as one of the staff attorneys for Senator Kennedy on the …
Presidential Biographies
… fretting over whether she was up to the demands of the job. She steeled herself for a role she believed "require[d] … First Lady. In July 1798, she fell desperately ill with what her daughter described as a "bilious fever," but what some scholars think may have been a physical collapse …
Presidential Speeches
… people to thank, and the Vice President did a marvelous job. I do want to mention, if I might, just three others: … others that I might mention, but I thank all of you for what you have done. I also can't help but note that in spite … create the world's largest trade zone and create 200,000 jobs in this country by 1995 alone. The environmental and …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… negotiate where I would stay for the first four months of what ultimately was supposed to be a nine-month fellowship: … Do you remember that? Heininger Yes. Schneider Their job was to do away with that. The first thing they wanted to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I was on a trip around the world with Bobby, which is what I called him and I’ll call him here, in 1962, very … a few nominees were rejected. You probably know that. What’s the alternative? I don’t know. I regret what’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… the ground rules. Everybody in here is clear on that. What we didn’t talk about outside is the allocation of time … publications and multimedia business and then took this job. I had done a number of grants for the National Endowment …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… got out in May of ’61 and they said they had all kinds of job opportunities. I had indicated I wanted to go into … I’ll just take the summer off and get a summer job and see what happens in the fall. Then the school called me and said, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the family role in Wisconsin—to pick a state at random—in what became kind of a lifetime of parallel careers and … and if they just learned how to tap dance then they’d find jobs, because there are a lot of jobs out here in Hollywood. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… beginning. Tell me when you first met Ted [Kennedy], and what were your first impressions of him? Shannon I first met … in, What is he doing with her ? And men would be asking, What’s he doing with that bill that’s coming up on the floor …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… a book on the Senate? Knott Yes, I believe so, yes. Beer What was your dissertation on? Knott I wrote about early … Well, it wasn’t long after that that he took a good job under Kennedy. These are things that people say when …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in the Labor Department. The pay was about three times what I was making as a reporter, and I was involved in a … I care about the whole American labor movement? I’ve got a job to do here; I’m trying to get the crooks. So I said, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the TV and saw the North Tower collapse, somebody at her job said the North Tower collapsed. She said, We’re coming, … woman who picked them up, Janet [Sides], was very good at what she did. She worked with children, and they trusted …
Presidential Biographies
… towns as his salesman father searched for a well-paying job. In 1920, the Reagans settled in Dixon. Jack Reagan was a … and Television Career After graduation, Reagan landed a job as a radio sportscaster at WOC in Davenport, Iowa, for … was nominated for an Academy Award. Two years later, in what critics consider her best role, she won the Oscar for …
OTHER
… when the New York Times published its first story about what the world would come to know as HIV/AIDS: “ Rare Cancer … and more for the AIDS research. I’d made predictions—just what is happening right now—about the 40 million people who … be a lightning rod. But you go, I'm sure you'll do a good job," and so forth. So that's what happened. . . . HIV/AIDS …
U.S. policy to attack HIV/AIDS worldwide evolved after a dismissive and ineffectual start.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… home, and that’s the first time I met him. Heininger What were your initial impressions of him? That was pretty … know him intimately, about how hard he worked there at the job of being an effective United States Senator—the hours he …
OTHER
… founded in a deeply felt religious faith and I don’t care what it is.” The great majority of Americans still expect the … illicit governmental aid, immigrants coming to “take our jobs,” refugees “sucking up” our social services and …
Rather than uniting the nation, President Trump's first weeks in office seem to have deepened polarization and anxiety. How he responds to those expectations and anxieties will set the tone for his term of office.