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Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… with the ground rules under which we’re operating: He is free to discuss anything said here today, but we as … begin with a little bit of biography. Could you tell us how you initially became involved in politics? Mikva I was … Senator, and I just couldn’t reconcile that. I actually did make an effort to get into politics. In fact, there’s a …
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| Bill Clinton Project… his impressions of Robert Rubin, Gene Sperling, Vice President Al Gore, and Lloyd Bentsen; his own confirmation as … you let us use them. Lawrence Summers When you use them, how do you use them? Riley In transcripted form. That means … you would like to give us your impressions of the Vice President, of Secretary [Robert] Rubin, and of the other core …
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| George W. Bush Project… a long history with the Bush family, particularly with the President’s brother, Jeb [John Ellis Bush]. We’d like you to just talk about how you met the Bushes to begin with and then lead on to how …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that I mean the whole dimension of the man. I believe that he believes—and it probably comes from his religious … religious faith who, without exception, have committed and did commit themselves to public service, and saw this was an …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… The session begins with Carp and Rubenstein each recalling how they came to join the White House staff and their broad … their thoughts on the successes and failures of the Carter presidency. … work and your responsibilities, what it was that you did, how you got involved so that we can be sure that we’ve got …
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| George W. Bush Project… to Turkey; Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs … brought Mel here. Edelman Mel has interviewed me before; he’s not gentle. Riley But we’re grateful for the time. One … wrong about some of this by the way—but I thought that President Bush was—His concern for prudence and his concern …
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| Bill Clinton Project… 19, 2007, and we are in his offices in Washington, D.C. He has graciously agreed to talk to us about his experiences … You were running for reelection at the same time as President Clinton was running. Did you have interactions on the campaign trail? Daschle We …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… and provides a lot of information. Could you tell us about how you first became acquainted with George Herbert Walker … which is nonetheless rent by endless factional strife. So he said, Come ahead. I went. He took me to lunch at the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and Robert F. Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He discusses the death of President Kennedy and how it affected Senator Edward Kennedy, and contrasts the … not to do that. The big concern in South Dakota was that he was a Catholic, and we’re a strong Lutheran and Protestant …
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| George W. Bush Project… years as secretary of state. She begins by discussing how long she wanted to stay in the George W. Bush … issues like Iraq and North Korea; Rice’s relationship with President George W. Bush as secretary of state; how Bush obtains information and makes decisions; Iran; …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… administration (the March 1981 assassination attempt, President Reagan's cancer surgeries and the possible … with the president during his tenure, and in this capacity he is able to offer an intimate perspective of Ronald and … and your career leading up to your association with President Reagan. Hutton I was born in New York City, the son …
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… Abraham Lincoln experienced a unique initial year in the presidency. No other incoming president has faced a comparable challenge to the stability … . Abraham Lincoln experienced a unique initial year in the presidency. No other incoming president has faced a …
Abraham Lincoln experienced a unique initial year in the presidency. No other incoming president has faced a comparable challenge to the stability of the country.
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| George W. Bush Project… Daniels describes his tenure as OMB Director. Some issues he touches on include the 2001 dot-com bubble bursting and … every page of it and it reminded me of everything. It did remind me of a few things, but I know there are going to … me first. I said, “Congratulations, Andy. How are you?” He said, “We’re finally free and clear to start building an …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… negotiations. I was an advisor to Garret FitzGerald, who did not identify himself as twice Prime Minister of this … by a selected number of the [Ronald] Reagan people because President Reagan was already incapacitated for interviews by … John Hume tomorrow. FitzGerald Are you? We’ve had— Donlon He told me he was arriving today. It’s important you should …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… about your long association with the Kennedy family? How did you first get to know them? Miller I was fortunate enough to be invited to meet President [John F.] Kennedy, on May 3, 1963, in the White … planned to be a gym teacher because I was a jock, but when he became President and during his campaign, I started …
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… and failures of past presidential transitions. Every new president begins somewhere—specifically, during the … President Clinton—as many other governors—didn’t realize how important, and time-consuming, military and foreign …
Five past-presidential transition leaders on what to do before inauguration
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Michael Frazier begins by discussing how he first met Senator Kennedy working on his 1980 presidential … things leading up to the upcoming Presidential race. Is he going to run, is he not going to run? As early as the … to hear from them in order to do the right thing. That's how he spent his August recess, on the phone talking to these …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… reference to his previous talk at the Miller Center and how this relates to that talk. We also discussed the ground … Thompson’s invitation at the Senate. So I assured him that he doesn’t need to repeat that because we know it. But there … to really prepare as much as I would have liked to. But I did look at the letters of invitation, which I appreciated …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… before Teddy and Vicki were Teddy and Vicki, I think, and how I knew him and how we came to know each other. I grew up … big Ted Kennedy Democrats, and I knew him casually because he would visit my family. I didn’t really know him—I interned …
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… Donald Trump’s presidency offers an extraordinary opportunity to advance the … Donald Trump’s presidency offers an extraordinary opportunity to advance the … won five southern states in the 1968 general election. President Trump’s early executive orders accelerating …
Donald Trump’s presidency offers an extraordinary opportunity to advance the paralyzed national discourse on race in America, and our new chief executive can validate his campaign claims to be a racially tolerant figure working for the success of all Americans—without alienating his core supporters.