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… tonight are Max Frankel, associate editor of the New York Times, Henry L. Trewhitt, diplomatic correspondent … was an integral part of the administration of Franklin Roosevelt. And I would also restore the involvement of the … greater patience and because of our greed for business deals, that they would sooner or later get the better of us. …
Presidential Speeches
… Between the States. That was the duty faced by Franklin Roosevelt when he led America out of an economic depression … but we've once again found our moral course, and with a new spirit, we are striving to express our best instincts to … its first impact on the 1978 crops. It will help a great deal. It'll add $6.5 billion or more to help the farmers with …
Presidential Speeches
… be choosing between two different versions or measures to deal with the economy. One is the measure offered by the … and stimulating economic growth and creating millions of new jobs. At the same time, however, I must state our … patience. As a matter fact, some 80 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt wrote these instructive words in his first message …
Presidential Speeches
… of the responsibilities that devolve upon our country's new leaders. Such a program will be filled out in the weeks … of any kind. Direct controls, except those on credit, deal not with the real causes of inflation but only with its … achievements in the half-century since President Theodore Roosevelt awakened the Nation to the problem of conservation. …
Presidential Speeches
… President Roosevelt reports to Congress on his trip to Puerto Rico. … by Cayey to San Juan, and returning next morning over the new American road from Arecibo to Ponce; the scenery was … to take advantage of the experience gained in one when dealing with the problems that from time to time arise in …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… tape came on about your family and your roots in upstate New York, but tell us a little bit about your upbringing and … was broke. I was desperate, and I was broke. So I made a deal with him. Riley I hope you didn’t spend a lot of money …
Presidential Speeches
… copper mined from the Earth and molded into wire. In the new economy, human invention increasingly makes physical … country you live in—you want it to be. And I have a great deal of faith. I said the other day to 76 students—they were … I think it was a kind of revenge against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected four times—the only President. …
Presidential Speeches
… ourselves. Here we are with a government that's been dealing with a drug-running Panamanian dictator. We've been … our kids. Governors like me and others have been trying to deal with the consequences. I remember being in a high school … on just about every weapon system; he says he's against new taxes, although he's broken that pledge at least times in …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… at the bottom, under February, rather than following the New Hampshire primary, it was on the day of the New Hampshire primary. And, on the next page—that would be … This was a problem or a factor that Ronald Reagan had to deal with. I’m interested in any observations you might have …
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… and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Period (New York: New York University Press, 2014). Clara Altman … presidential action. The central case studies of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt's … Hart-Celler Act in 1965, the United States entered a new era of immigration. This period of massive immigration …
Public Events
… of importance to African-Americans. He has written a new book: The Black Presidency, Barack Obama and the Politics … ever had. But race will not earn him that plaudit. His dealing with race has been lamentable in many. In fact he … He’s failed the nation to push them, to encourage them to deal with an issue. Not in a way that he has to raise his …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… completed that in about nine months and then went back to New York. But that became a very important little … appeared to me. He also had some very unappealing ways of dealing with people. If he was disappointed with what you …
Presidential Recordings
… Conversation No. 393-11 (cont’d) -Abilities -Sneed -New job -Possible retirement -Letter Supreme Court -The … -Election -Los Angeles -Florida -Indiana -Recall -Theodore Roosevelt -Reconfirmation -Misconduct -Justice Department … briefings -Ford -Hugh Scott -Timmons -Effect -Future dealings with White House -Effect of 1972 election -Timmons's …
Presidential Speeches
… on the State of the Union. Let me begin by saluting the new Speaker of the House, and thanking him, especially … this century, being old meant being poor. When President Roosevelt created Social Security, thousands wrote to thank … aging of America, and we must do more to help our families deal with it. I was born in 1946, the first year of the baby …
Presidential Speeches
… President Roosevelt delivers a message to Congress regarding his recent visit to Panama. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt’s trip to Panama to inspect the building of the … various States and cities, and that Colonel Waring did in New York when he cleaned its streets. The results have been …
Public Events
… pulpit.” Our gregarious twenty-sixth president, Teddy Roosevelt, coined the phrase as he pontificated about the … people.” Is that just a matter of style, or is the new way our president communicates, as some might say, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in 1971, at Iona College, which is a Catholic college in New York. It's a very tough civil liberties speech, but very … [ laughter ] Flug That was one of the subjects I had to deal with as legislative assistant. A very nice man was the …
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… “Deke,” [Delta Kappa Epsilon]—Fraternities were not a big deal at Yale and never really have been, because the college … of imminent attacks with nuclear weapons on Washington, New York, LA [Los Angeles], and Chicago. Those were just … in the same category as Lincoln lifting habeas corpus, Roosevelt interning the Japanese. There was a fear for the …
With the release of the George W. Bush Presidential Oral History, key memories of the critical first years of the 21st century have been opened to historians and the general public. Here are some key excerpts from the collection.
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… Eisenhower was an organizer. Following his election, the new president, in his own words, was determined to “organize … snub. For the new president, who was already uneasy about dealing with Congress, the affront reinforced his distaste …
Nineteen months into his first term, President Dwight Eisenhower, quoting an unnamed “former college president,” advised a public audience: “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”
Presidential Speeches
… of President McKinley’s assassination, President Theodore Roosevelt reflects on the life of an honorable public servant … Americans. In addition to this sorrowful event, President Roosevelt addresses business concerns, immigration, … will of the Nation expressed through the forms of law as a New England town meeting is in similar fashion the embodiment …