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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… as well as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He also speaks to the relationship between Jimmy Carter and … Kennedys, growing up in Massachusetts, a firm supporter of President [John F.] Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, and was … Burke was primarily the one. Young Dave was out then. Was he with [Hugh] Carey, or CBS [Columbia Broadcasting System]? …
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… What must the next president do in the first year to manage the overheated, … What must the next president do in the first year to manage the overheated, … media environment. Yet since the late 19th Century, most presidents upon taking office have found themselves in new, …
What must the next president do in the first year to manage the overheated, ubiquitous, yet fragmented media environment in which we find ourselves today?
Presidential Biographies
… Roosevelt took the oath of office in September 1901, he presided over a country that had changed significantly in …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… days of the Carter administration and his role in it. He also talks about the economic challenges at that time, the … of the Carter staff, and the legacies of the Carter presidency. … the opportunity to see the transcript of the proceedings. He will then have the opportunity to edit or indicate what …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… Assistant to the President for Congressional Liaison … Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential election, talks about the president's relations with Congress, including those with key … date when I knew I was going to be an Assistant to the President on the Congressional Liaison staff, but it was very …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… of McDonald's service in the Carter administration – how he joined the administration in August 1977 then transferred … staff review – as well as some general thoughts on the presidency. During this session, McDonald examines his role … it was an interesting intellectual exercise to discuss how he might bring management techniques to the White House, …
Presidential Biographies
… hero, she was ecstatic about becoming the wife of the President of the United States. She was thrilled with her husband's nomination for the presidency in 1868--even more than the candidate himself--and … him throughout his administration. However, it is unclear how much influence she really wielded. Ulysses S. Grant was a …
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… when you least expect them, including soon after a new president takes office. Containing a crisis can require quick … when you least expect them, including soon after a new president takes office. Containing a crisis can require quick … Obama inherited the economic crisis that began during the presidency of George W. Bush. A new president can be faced …
Financial crises happen when you least expect them, including soon after a new president takes office. Containing a crisis can require quick decision making and action before the new administration has accrued significant experience.
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Deputy Assistant to the President; Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs; … in the Reagan and Bush administrations and focuses on President George H. W. Bush’s foreign policy skills as the … Young This is a President George H. W. Bush oral history interview with Roman …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… need to take two fields of the many fields in economics. I did seven because I was interested in everything. But the … think it’s starting to come out with these new books that he was quite a bit more knowledgeable and intelligent than …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs … Griffin talks about Congressional relations, Whitewater, President William J. Clinton's personality, healthcare … crime bill, Supreme Court nominations, working with Vice President Al Gore, education reform, the budget and the …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Bush Administration’s handling of the U.S. recession, and President Bush’s character and how it shaped his approach to politics, especially the 1992 … other parts, the most significant of which was that the President sent a memo to each of his Cabinet Secretaries, …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… with the Democratic Governors Association. In this role, he came to know the candidate and the campaign staff well, … House press secretary briefly at the end of Clinton’s Presidency. In this interview, Siewert discusses the campaign and transition to the Presidency, how White House staffing and procedures evolved over time, …
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… Seven presidents—more than half of those who have served starting … highest court during their first year in office. But no president in this period had a Supreme Court vacancy waiting for him as he entered the White House, giving him the opportunity to … nomination is unprecedented in the modern era. Seven presidents—more than half of those who have served starting …
Seven presidents—more than half of those who have served starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt—had the opportunity to nominate a member of the nation’s highest court during their first year in office. But no president in this period had a Supreme Court vacancy waiting for him as he entered the White House, giving him the opportunity to nominate a justice in the first two weeks of his presidency.
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Personal Aide to the President; Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development; Assistant to the President for Management … From his earliest days with Vice President Bush, to the White House, Timothy McBride provides … back to this document in future times and understand the President as you knew him and this White House as you knew …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… taker. George Edwards told me yesterday afternoon that he has a scheduling problem this morning but will join us … change from Reagan to Bush. Yeutter That transition. Young How you came to join the Bush administration. Yeutter As I … I had a lot of private sector offers at that time. Then President Bush threw a monkey wrench in the works by asking …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… at Carter, on both an individual and professional level. He begins with the origins of his relationship with Carter in … which Lance foresaw as a potential problem early in the presidency. Considerable time is spent discussing Carter as … there is not some sense of denigration about something he may or may not have done. He still is not popular in any …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… your story about when you decided to run for Congress, and how those series of decisions happened. Espy I can’t pin it … until ’85. I had never run for anything—well, maybe class president, and I was president of the senior class of Yazoo … basis. Even the teachers, I recall with great detail, did not protect us, and in some cases promoted the ill …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… an important role, and also the period during the Clinton Presidency. We’d like to start by going back a little bit to … took a seat over at Bryant Park for a few minutes—and he was wondering how you first became interested and involved in politics, you …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… people in the future who want to come to understand this Presidency and your experience with it as it actually was. … ask you for a little bit of autobiography. That is, to ask how you became interested in politics in the first place, and … Force One. That’s the earliest memory I have of seeing a President on TV. But I think I really got interested in it …