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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… tell me when you first met [Edward M.] Kennedy and what your first impressions of him were. Bayh Of course Ted … prohibitions that imposed restrictions on access to the job market or to the production line, that are directly …
Presidential Biographies
… and therefore could not be an elector. He resigned his job after the election, but the Democratic governor of that … "bargain," or compromise that offered anything beyond what Hayes promised to do in his letter of acceptance is …
Presidential Biographies
… installment plans. By 1800, the Harrisons had three of what would eventually be ten children, although only four … White House. That year the Northwest Territory split into what were known as the Ohio and Indiana Territories, and … well, and money problems grew; he was reduced to a menial job as recorder for his county to make ends meet. …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Vatican. My father was a storekeeper. He had a series of what seemed to be diminishingly successful businesses, mostly … that turned out to be very partisan. Mukasey Yes. “Those jobs aren’t for you.” Perry So how did you decide on Yale … counsel, a man named Arthur Leff, so he helped me get this job for the summer and it was wonderful. I was deciding NLRB …
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… the White House with a clear domestic agenda to increase jobs and economic growth. Within months of becoming … have been more time spent on the first hundred days and what did we want to accomplish, what was going to face us and …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… aspirations over the years? Burke Yes. Young And what you observed and what you knew of those. I think your … got up and we went into the room behind the hearing room, “What’s this all about, Dave?” because he could see that I was …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… how you became involved in the Nixon campaign in ’68 and what your responsibilities were. Anderson You want the true … interviewing Nixon, and at one point he suddenly said, And what’s your position on the draft? And Nixon looked at him …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the most important thing that we could talk about today is what you feel the effect has been of Kennedy's absence from … man he was, with enormous integrity, and did a fantastic job, arguing for public health and against smoking, and on …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… audience is people not yet born, and they ought to know what the story was, even through it could not fully be told … U.S. Attorney's office in 1966. But I was unable to get a job. They didn't kill my application. They just kind of kept …
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… and therefore could not be an elector. He resigned his job after the election, but the Democratic governor of that … "bargain," or compromise that offered anything beyond what Hayes promised to do in his letter of acceptance is …
Frequent adjournments and filibusters threatened to plunge the nation into chaos by leaving it with no president on inauguration day, March 4.
Presidential Biographies
… sluggish and eight million Americans still were without jobs. Critics from various points on the political … in the popular vote and in the Electoral College. What the 1936 election made most clear was that because of …
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… will shape how the war moves forward, how it ends, and what comes next. As we approach the war’s three-week mark, it … appeared to be moving in different directions. Putin’s job approval in Russia was at about 71 percent – up from a … on the day that Russia invaded, President Biden’s job approval among Americans was at 41 percent -- near the …
Putin feared the growing power of Western economic and cultural systems while badly misperceiving the strength of Western political leaders and institutions – particularly Joe Biden.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… It’s a six-year project, so we’re— Haar Six years. What year are you now? Knott Near the end of the year one. … name, Teddy had no other qualifications for the important job of Senator. You probably have the letter. Knott We’ve …
Presidential Biographies
… split the Democrats, many of whom feared the loss of jobs to Mexico and Canada. Additionally, a barrage of … it looked as if the Comeback Kid stood a good chance to do what no Democrat had accomplished since FDR: serve two …
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… Neither of these strategies does a particularly good job of setting the stage for a good transition to a second … herself again, get yourself back together and be ready for what is going to hit in January, you’re just asking for … a time to take stock of a job that they now know well; fix what’s wrong on the personnel and process side; and focus on …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in some Sundays. It seemed to me, hearing him talk about what they did together and what he learned, and also about … organization and that they could rely on that to do the job for them. You know, with the President in Washington and …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… said, “We’ll take care of money. You don’t have to worry.” What was interesting was that a lot of people, including … ran the Santa Monica assembly district and did a very good job. The campaign asked her to come back to Detroit. There …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… reading the newspaper and not really different enough from what I felt I already knew at the time. I ended up studying … to do and ended up going to New York and looking for a job in more the government-political sphere. Riley Did you …
Presidential Biographies
… attend and appear to be supporters. There, he introduced what would become key themes of his campaign and presidency, … industrial manufacturing and the offshoring of blue-collar jobs, on global trade and government deficits. His campaign … resistance because they were famous. Trump apologized for what he called “locker-room talk,” but ignored calls from …
Upon his inauguration in 2017, Donald Trump became the first person elected president...
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… upset about this guy. He had been an opponent of most of what they felt the EEOC was supposed to be about, and he did … so and then take advantage of it later. We did a real good job at that hearing. The Republicans were not going to give … The fool, the guy who keeps shouting in the night about what’s gone wrong, and trying to find one honest man, or what …