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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with reference to civil rights at home and abroad. Kennedy President [Ronald] Reagan was elected. In 1982, we were faced … successful in terms of taking on the problems of racism. He got an incredible reception and was very well received. He …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Gregg is the guy who prepared your briefing book, and he’s the world’s foremost expert on John Culver. Culver [ … at the Kennedy Library, but could you just tell us how you first met Senator Edward Kennedy? Culver We met in … you have any particular recollections of that drive with President Hoover? Culver The only thing I recall was Hoover …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… ’62, and I’m wondering if you had any contact with them or how you came to connect with the Kennedys. Mitchell The first … to the election of that year, and following the election, he became the Attorney General, in 1961. I met him on a … to observe Senator Ted Kennedy in the Senate, although I did not meet him personally at that time. Again, I was a …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… from Governor of California to presidential contender. He recounts his service as Co-Chairman of the Reagan-Bush … cabinet and the debate over the selection of former President Gerald Ford as Reagan's running mate. Tuttle and … first came to know Ronald Reagan, the early interactions he had with him. Tuttle My mother once told me, actually, my …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that’s where you can make a unique contribution here. When did you first meet Ted Kennedy? Gwirtzman I met Ted Kennedy in March of 1962, when he had already decided to run for the Senate and when he’d …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… begins this interview by discussing his background and how he came to work with Bill Clinton. He discusses his work with … and staffing issues and why Clinton decided to run for president. Wilhelm explains how decisions were made in the … evidence of that but— Jones Do you have any sense of how he viewed the DNC? Perhaps as you described other members …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… left uncovered last time, which is Chappaquiddick? Miller Did you have a lead question with regard to it? Heininger No. … Kennedy really didn’t want to go to this picnic gathering. He had sailed in the race from Hyannis. His back was aching …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs … Marcia Hale recalls the 1992 campaign, President William J. Clinton's personality, working on White … as I understand it, right? From what I’ve heard, the President was often jealous of the First Lady’s ability to …
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… House recordings reveal a year quickly unraveling for President Lyndon Johnson … February 5 Jack Horner with President Kennedy at the White House Correspondents … Mm-hmm. Hồ Chí Minh in 1946 President Johnson: Not a—he hasn't been elected to nothing. He's a dictator if there …
Secret White House recordings reveal a year quickly unraveling for President Lyndon Johnson
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… grasping at straws like Iraq and Syria and hoping he could somehow find the right answer and just get through … Rubio got the right answer, but he didn’t go on to become president and Donald Trump did. And while a few articles …
Bring peer review back into the presidential nomination process.
Presidential Biographies
… President Adams's style was largely to leave domestic matters … Congress and to control foreign policy himself. Not only did the Constitution vest the President with responsibility … most bitterly contested domestic issue during the Adams presidency. Supposedly created as a means of preventing the …
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… Fixing healthcare was a lifelong passion for Kennedy T he origins of Senator Kennedy’s interest in healthcare are … from his job to care for his son, a luxury many parents did not enjoy. Kennedy’s battle to reform what he saw as a …
After dealing with health challenges—for himself and his family—Kennedy fulfilled his goal posthumously with Obamacare.
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Assistant to the President; White House Communications Director … Bush interviews. Demarest I’m David Demarest and I’m vice president of public affairs at Stanford University. I was the …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… so we can spend the afternoon talking about the Clinton Presidency. Let me reiterate: you’ve been through the drill, … on what you were doing and your relationship with the President. In a piece that you had written in 1992, which … us a score card, but for us to talk about your sense of how well the Clinton administration performed on each of the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy might run for office from Wyoming? Gwirtzman He had thought about running, going out and establishing a … you. I never had any discussion with him, but you can see how. . . . There are at least 200 people who live on the …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… want to begin by asking, do you recall when you first met President Clinton? Mitchell I don’t recall. I think it was shortly after he announced his candidacy for the Presidency that he came to my office in the Capitol—I was …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… assistant, and later counsel, to Nelson Rockefeller. He discusses his accomplishments as General Counsel of the … the misguided operation, its effect on the White House and President Reagan, the congressional and independent counsel … of terrorist attack—the Continuity of Government project. He had come across some material on Reagan and his various …
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… All four presidents from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton whose … animates the American dream of upward mobility. All four presidents from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton whose … as early as the election campaign that brought the new president to office and others that arose unexpectedly after …
All four presidents from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton whose administrations’ histories have been published as part of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program either faced a challenge or launched an initiative during their first year in office relating to the expansion of opportunity in the service of greater social and economic mobility.
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… working in the State Department during the Reagan presidency; and serving in George H. W. Bush’s Cabinet as the … with Ed Derwinski before the session, goes first to him. He will be allowed to edit it to his satisfaction, and that … be interesting to see. I think he’ll make a run for the Presidency in 2004, and I think he’ll get slapped down so …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of health insurance and welfare reform under Jimmy Carter. He speaks of his collegial relationship with Edward Kennedy … It was probably in the 1960s, when I was working for President [Lyndon B.] Johnson. Heininger What was your … Well, I didn't know Ted Kennedy well at the time. When did he get elected to the Senate? Heininger Sixty-two. He came in …