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| George H. W. Bush Project… release of the main archive at about this time next year. What we’re encouraging everybody to do is to get the document … term as third vice chairman of the Republican Party. The job really involved finding opportunities to be in front of …
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| George W. Bush Project… worked for him in the Senate in the ’80s; in fact my first job on Capitol Hill was working for Lawton Chiles. It started … it was to do the obvious. This was also for me a primer on what Katrina was going to look like 13 years later. I saw Jeb …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the beginning, and tell me when you first met Kennedy, and what were your first impressions of him? Kress I think I … schools, could be held accountable or could even do a good job, if they didn’t know where a student was from year to …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to get to go out on the trail one day with him, and see what the campaigning was like, and I finally got my moment. … Martin. I think it was part reward, for having done a good job rushing around, getting nomination papers from hosts of …
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| George W. Bush Project… is get them out on the table and then you can gravitate to what you want to. Let me put these out there just for you to … and so forth, but I was a private citizen. Riley Was your job just too sensitive for you to lapse over into the …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… I thought it was a very good interview, and a lot of what Martha covered I don’t see any need to repeat here … that’s a very good interview where you’ve talked about the job and the nuts and bolts of being a press person in your …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and tell me when you first met [Edward] Kennedy and what your initial impressions were of him. Rollins The first … hi, how are ya. It lasted all of 45 seconds. Then my job was to show up in Washington and run the committee. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… had been used when the Republicans were in the majority. What did you see as being the purpose of a hearing, and what … gets threaded properly. We had this welfare reform idea, Jobs for Employable, Dependent Individuals, JEDI, because I …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… afternoon. Let me note for the record our ground rules. What all of us here understand is that nothing said in this … a matter of policy. Yeutter That’s what I assumed. Young What’s edited is the transcript, not the tapes. The …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… of college I took graduate courses because I wanted to see what graduate school might be like. I was trying to decide … a very modest income family. I wanted to go out and get a job; I didn’t really want to stick around forever. I liked … they’re stories; a large number of people are getting jobs or losing jobs, depending on the state of the economy. …
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| George W. Bush Project… and so you’re the only person who is allowed to report what we talk about in here. This is to encourage you to speak … could get a PhD in history.” He said, “You’ll never get a job. If you do diplomatic history and American Presidential …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… him. He was waiting when we got there and I had no idea what the purpose of the meeting was. Sitting next to him at … to pump him a little bit. I said, "It's damn interesting what's going on there." The people I know were in the room at …
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| Bill Clinton Project… a young person, I was living in New York City and doing a job I hated, so I started thinking about what I wanted to do if I was going to have to work for 40 … I thought would be interesting to work in and couldn’t get jobs, so I went to work in a lab, because I had a chemistry …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… we need to fill some gaps here. I’ve also told them that what they think is important for us to learn in trying to … to tell people I did at the White House, and Bert can tell what’s different in his view. Since Stu didn’t tell us what … the view that he would show me how he managed to get a job at the White House at a young age and was able to coast …
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| Bill Clinton Project… person in the room who's free to report to anybody outside what we've talked about. We want to encourage you to speak … probably shouldn't pay a great deal of attention to what's in those binders, at least insofar as they had an …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… example, on how to deal with employees who had lost their jobs and therefore their health insurance. There were serious … new atmosphere. The challenge was, Let’s at least find out what we can do for people who most need health insurance … would take the place of Social Security and do a better job of it. I don’t think anyone believed that, unless they …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… in—of course all the walls were bare—and he said, Pen, what would you like on the walls? I knew that you had that … know he was the President who was shot by a disappointed job seeker? [laughter] He had me. Then he took it down. He …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Knott I’ll start by asking you what your first connections were with the Kennedy family, … staff people hung out together, for example. We all had jobs to do, which was to take notes, get memos, get speeches, …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… it was—for Congress first, and then for the Senate, I did what I could to help. Barbara [Bush], his wife, and Jessica … Finally, I decided if the people don’t want to give me a job, there’ll be other ways to get into public office. So I … no development near where we lived. Willie said, George, what’s that over there? George looked down and saw a used …
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| Bill Clinton Project… take that and run with it a bit and help us understand what you think historians will find most important about this … economic actors in this team. Summers I wanted to get a job in the administration; I was eager to work in the …