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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… time I was graduating from law school, and they asked if I’d be interested. I remember thinking what a ridiculous … the AFL that actually opposed the minimum wage when FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] first introduced it because they don’t want people …
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… Dynamics and Presidential Transition: The Case of Roosevelt and Truman,” in Balogh and Schulman, eds., … States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp (1936) President Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat on “National Security,” December … already been made by the advisors he inherited from Franklin Roosevelt? Group 5: Was it morally justifiable to …
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… to keep taxes low for all but the super rich. President Franklin Roosevelt, whose New Deal is rightly remembered as …
Historically, a president’s first year in office has been an auspicious time for getting major tax and spending bills through Congress.
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… in my office. Young Dick, do you have some questions you’d like to ask on this staff business? Neustadt Let me try to … majorities, like Johnson in his re-election campaign and [Franklin] Roosevelt when he won almost all the states. But that’s not …
Presidential Speeches
… taking us headlong into the worst recession since Franklin D. Roosevelt took the same oath. On that dark day I told my …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… understanding with respect to the ground rules, which I’d like to repeat for the tape, is that nothing said in these … but everybody participated. He would chair meetings in the Roosevelt Room first with the entire White House staff in … authorization bill, which there hadn’t been one since FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt], he was into it down to the number …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Washington, D. C. … by Clay Johnson. So I said, "That sounds fun. I think I'd be interested." I applied, and when they called me and … some Presidents— You see Kennedy's desk, you see FDR's [Franklin Delano Roosevelt], and then they redo those desks at the …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… point to historically who could fulfill both roles well. Franklin Roosevelt was an exception to that. But I think if … that you find a way to enlarge it. It seemed to me that Franklin Roosevelt had attempted this successfully. He …
Presidential Recordings
… -Howard De Silva -Political orientation -1776 -Benjamin Franklin -The propriety of President’s reaction -Crowd … am. Whitman’s meeting -Herbert Stein -Shultz -Barbara H. Franklin -Arrangements -Photograph session -The President’s … F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson -Photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt -Inaugurations -The President …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… Washington, D.C. … with a Tennessean? Bakshian It was a matter of the D.C. Young Republicans. The actual urban population of … the same way people that had never been very keen on FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt], in fact might have hated his guts, rallied after …
Presidential Speeches
… a new nation. At the dawn of the last century, Theodore Roosevelt said, "The one characteristic more essential than …
Presidential Speeches
… me the same authority extended to every President from Franklin Roosevelt through Richard Nixon, and used by many …
Presidential Biographies
… after the deaths of Presidents Taylor, Lincoln, McKinley, Franklin Roosevelt, and Kennedy. Enemies might sneer at Tyler …
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… just over the modern era – and usually we date that from Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman onward – there have been …
Miller Center expert Barbara Perry on what history tells us about presidents and their self-inflicted wounds
Presidential Biographies
… of the presidential retreat in the Maryland mountains that Franklin D. Roosevelt had called Shangri-La, Eisenhower renamed it after …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… I did two internships, which explains how I came to D.C. [District of Columbia]. Jeannette Hayner was there when … meeting. He had stayed that night and he came into the Roosevelt Room, to the door closest to the Oval Office, just … crises like 9/11 and the financial crisis? Milkis FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] had to deal with the Great …
Presidential Speeches
… we can do it. In another crisis—the one in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt said this country would build 60,000 [50,000] …
Presidential Recordings
… of Republican Governors -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. Television -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Writing press Vietnam settlement -Los Angeles …
Presidential Speeches
… you something. I think it was a kind of revenge against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected four times—the only President. … kind of remained, but it was just a tradition. And then Roosevelt ran the four times—died very early in his fourth …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Washington, D.C. … clear that we weren’t going to lose to him, we thought we’d lose to Bush. So we spent, my entire first memories of … know Lincoln had Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, I talk about Roosevelt’s Cabinet with [Henry] Stimson and Frank Knox, … just, okay, this is their show and this is as—you know who Franklin Spinney is? What’s his name, he’s at the Pentagon, …