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… allusion to his desire to break with legalistic views of what a state executive could do—won the nomination on the … to aid the families of workers killed or injured on the job. And, for the first time in the state’s history, Wilson …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… that would be important, just to alert future readers, is, what were you doing yesterday? Wilhelm Yesterday I flew to … as well. Riley Very good. That helps to put in context what's going to happen the rest of the day. We'll funnel that … role early on in a campaign and he did a fantastic job. Rahm headed up the financial end of things. I was the …
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| Bill Clinton Project… the only person who’s permitted to say anything about what goes on in the confines of the room. Eventually, you’ll … Program. Riley Very good. How did you end up getting the job as Director of Congressional Affairs for Bill Clinton? …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and we spent hours trying to make a decision. What was interesting was that there were alternative ways of … I was going to be with him, but I wasn’t going to lose my job because I was leaving, and I was getting paid for it …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… you’ve had a long history with the Kennedy family. Tell me what your first impressions were and when you first met Ted … Ted Kennedy wanted to do anything but just do a good job in a very quiet and effective manner as a Senator. He …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… ground rules, the basic one being confidentiality. Most of what we want to do today is get a portrait of Al Gore as you … in ’73, traveled for a bit, and then came back. My first job in public service was with the precursor of FEMA [Federal …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… wrapping lettuce and stuff. Somewhere around '78 I quit my job and went to work to run the organization in … in the '80 campaign, can you just give us some sense of what your responsibilities were? Kaufman Sure. Once we …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… may have the opportunity, as I understand it, right? From what I’ve heard, the President was often jealous of the First … for Charlie Cook and a couple of other people. Anyway, my job was political director, which was to first recruit …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… with me asking simply how you first met Ronald Reagan? What were your initial impressions of him? Rowny As I think … my difficulties. He smiled and said, We both ought to do what’s right for the country. He added, I don’t think you’re …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… any questions about ground rules. Let me briefly explain what’s going to happen. We’re going to audiotape. We’ll take …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… staff. Part of that agenda was restructuring the staff for what you felt was a better way to utilize some of their … to move legislation, which meant, in many cases, that our job was to create powerful coverage or positive coverage in …
Presidential Speeches
… to you and to the farmers, they have done a magnificent job in the past, and we should be eternally grateful. This … shortages, hamper production, stifle growth, and limit jobs. I do not ask for such powers, however politically … I urge you to join me before your recess, in addition to what I have said before, to join me by voting to set a target …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… & Burling. All those early things played a role in what happened later. I think it's true of all of our careers: … it and did lots of other things--the guy who had my job basically kept an eye on the civil part. The Civil Rights …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… from the Oral History Project. I wrote a note to you about what we we’re doing there. So we’ll talk about that another … Miller Center. I help run the Oral History Project. Cheney What’s the name of the guy who used to run the Miller Center? …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… don’t you tell me when you first met Edward Kennedy and what were your initial impressions of him. Shapiro I’m going … doctors involved with him and his family. Of course, the job in the office was much more than just being his health …
Oral History Interviews
| 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 …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… I’m Barbara Franklin. I’m a former Commerce Secretary, in what we are now calling Bush One. Young I’m Jim Young. Riley … 1971, with the mission of recruiting women for high-level jobs in government, and that was a part of a three-pronged …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… that I knew my Social Security number, but I didn’t know what FICA [Federal Insurance Contributions Act] stood for. That was my job interview with John Salmon, the chief counsel. But he … a different perspective than the White House. I don’t know what’s the best way to tap into that, but it seems to me that …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… aide in the State House in Massachusetts. That's part of what led to me taking time off from Oxford and working on the … of how Clinton thinks about governing--the economics, the jobs, the people. For him, it's a continuum that doesn't …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… he can literally stop a conversation and go, OK, Curran, what do you think? And all of a sudden you’re sitting there … in the world who scares me. And he said, All right, what’s going on? And I told him and he said, OK, sit down, …