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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… So he just couldn’t believe it. We said, Well, look. Do what we’re asking you to do. Earl Long goes to the track —he … It paid 50 cents an hour, and I could never have gotten a job anywhere like that anywhere. TV was just coming on; it … played and I said to somebody, I told them to play loud. What’s the matter with them? It sounds like they’re hardly …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… and identify yourself so that the transcriber can know what your voice sounds like. So, if you could just introduce … President [Lyndon B.] Johnson thought PPBS did a terrific job of focusing and inserting analysis into the decisions of … administration, and the President still doesn’t understand what’s going on at the Bureau of the Budget—doesn’t …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… you. Is that satisfactory? Darman It’s consistent with what you wrote on July 18th and totally satisfactory. Zelikow … of Fox News, Fox Communications, and he’s done a terrific job at that. At any rate, the flexible freeze was a way of …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… first question I want to start with is a broad overview: What value do you bring for [Edward M.] Kennedy? What can you … dealing with the press. I had had very close-in, protected jobs where I was a staff assistant, not a line person. I had … you're expected to today. In a sense, I was molded in that job, in terms of my own expectations of myself, and his …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I start by asking, When did you first meet Kennedy and what were your first impressions of him? but I’m going to … connected with the others; postal workers just doing their jobs. The letter addressed to me that I was supposed to open …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… which was an assistant to the Secretary of State job. I’m answering your question; I’m about to answer it now. … gentleman had lost twice? Espy Oh yes. Yes. Martin What was your understanding of that race—those two races? …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… came on about an elaboration of these ground rules and what will happen from this point. Again, your audience is not … The Republican firm working for Chrysler offered me a job, so in 1980 I accepted that and went to work at Timmons & … He said, "One, your guy won't win, and two, those great jobs are hard to get." So I went to work for Hill and …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… touch with your alma mater? Fuller I have not done a great job of that. A little bit. Some of the people I know there, … for about the last three years. I think that’s actually what turned him to the left. Fuller I see. It may have been. … Look, find a place to live. There’s four different jobs I want you to do. I’m not even sure I can remember them. …
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… people.… Instead of teaching someone else to do a job, we like to do it ourselves. And this trait has been … here. PENTAGON PAPERS When work was completed on what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers on January 15, … in Vietnam. His brief stint with the task force confirmed what he had already come to suspect: The US government’s …
President Nixon’s plan for getting out of Vietnam? Turn the battle against Communism over to the South Vietnamese.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… colleagues and personal friends. Indeed, contrary to what some may believe, the Brooke and Kennedy staffs, on … their superb staffs who all got along and did a splendid job. In retrospect, as with 1981 and '82, when you see the …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… on counter-terrorism and drug enforcement. Riley This was what time period, General? Shelton This was 1987 to ’89. I … CSPAN all the time. I couldn’t have asked for a better job. In going to be the Chairman, I felt as comfortable as if …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… you can strike it out. Dowd I will talk about the man, what I learned with Ted Kennedy. Knott OK. That would be … the western part of the state. In fact, I ended up with a job with the Department of Public Works so we took an …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… that in the interest of free exchange and candor what’s said in the room doesn’t go outside the room. … ████ ███████ ███ ████ ████████ Moore You didn’t have a job and I didn’t have one. I didn’t know I was going to have …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the beginning? Tell me when you first met Senator Kennedy. What were your initial impressions of him? Kassebaum I first … cities and neighborhoods. It gives you a sense of what’s happening. Anyway, that was the background of how I’ve …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… who were running his organization? Mitchell I can’t recall what happened in the caucuses. The Maine Democratic Party had … of the ’92 convention? Mitchell He did a good job, obviously. I’d had a long experience of dealing with …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… and procedures that require us all to hold this interview, what’s said here, in confidence. The transcripts go to Chase … went to the Republican National Committee, another loser job in my opinion at the time, I would visit him there. I say …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… clear, first I’d like it to be clear amongst us, what the ground rules are, and what the disposition of an … Bush from that capacity. So my father knew both. I got the job because I had represented the Business Roundtable, you …
Presidential Biographies
… threatened to burden him with the sins of his predecessor: what to do with Nixon's cabinet and staff, whose assistance … foreign competition that slowed economic growth and job creation, and from a larger American workforce—replete …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Supreme Judicial Court, but he was probably the second. What happened was that his predecessor, Judge [Edward] … and her husband, how important it was for him to have the job, how he had topped the list on the exam. The mayor took …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… transcribing will have some sense about who is saying what. So I am going to ask everyone around the table to say … Clinton until I came back to Washington to assume the job as Deputy Secretary of Defense. I had no knowledge or … it was the right decision in both cases, both of those jobs, the first one even more than the second one. It was a …