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… in this country, as Jefferson wrote long ago in rejecting John Adams' suggestion of an artificial aristocracy of wealth …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project
… I’m also at the University of Virginia. Fortier I’m John Fortier. I’m a political scientist at the American … a distinguished university president from the South; John Dunlop, as his Secretary of Labor who was a labor law … party had been shrinking since the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. People, out of affection for John Kennedy, …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project
… Jim Wolfensohn, I was going to sit on the board of the [John F.] Kennedy Center [for the Performing Arts]. So I came … and Budget people. First it was Ken Apfel, but really John Callahan was an expert in that area. Callahan had been a … I’ll talk to him. What’s the guy’s name? He said, John Callahan. So I called the President in a day and said, I …
Presidential Speeches
… Church. The great apostle of this movement was the Rev. John Wise, of Massachusetts. He was one of the leaders of the … But these thoughts can very largely be traced back to what John Wise was writing in 1710. He said, "Every man must be … as it did this background, it is no wonder that Samuel Adams could say "The people seem to recognize this resolution …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project
… the transcriber will try to match up the voices. So John and Jim and Stacie and Dr. Rivlin, if you would— Gilmour I’m John Gilmour. Pfiffner Jim Pfiffner.  Rivlin Alice Rivlin … over to take the chairmanship of Ways and Means.  Brock Adams became the chairman of Budget. And Brock simply did not …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project
… Governor. Iowa is a tough state. There's a sense in the [John] Kerry campaign that Wisconsin has broken their way. … in Illinois, and I am the Midwest finance chair for John Kerry as well. Riley Very good. That helps to put in … Absolutely. Riley I can't remember the sequence. Wilhelm John Hart is a guy who—I forget who knew him originally—but I …
Presidential Speeches
… law or of practical statesmanship. President John Quincy Adams, in claiming on one occasion, after his retirement from … Union, according to the suggestion of President J. Q. Adams in 1807, whilst a member of the Senate of the United …
Presidential Recordings
… President met with Pote Sarasin, Anand Panyarachun, and John H. Holdridge; the White House photographer was present … Thailand -Message from Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik -North Vietnamese representative’s conversation … Bureaucracy -Adm. Horacio Rivero, Jr. -Spain -Adm. John S. McCain, Jr. -Commander, Pacific Fleet -Knowledge of …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project
… DCCC. When I was at the Senate Campaign Committee it was John Breaux, who I hope runs for Governor. It was a great … assume it was just a copy—of his transition paper for John Kennedy.  I got to go around and talk to people. I … Several years it was Ted Koppel, who loves cartooning. John McCain. I sat next to Warren Buffett one night. I had no …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project
… that the United States had been--I don't think we used [John] McCain's word--but feckless in the exercise of American … designed to draw a personal distinction between him and [John] Kerry, and if they campaigned correctly assessed that … W. Bush character for the Presidency better than the John Kerry character. So they seized with glee on moments of …
Presidential Speeches
… Betsy Ross. Alexander Hamilton. Benjamin Franklin. John Adams. James Madison. Dolly Madison. The great Frederick …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project
… to that system. You read about [Franklin D.] Roosevelt or [John F.] Kennedy giving out the same assignment to two or … powerful. That was true in the Nixon administration when [John] Ehrlichman and [H.R.] Haldeman were at their heyday. … some extent was that we had the great advantage, thanks to John Ehrlichman, of not being on the White House payroll. …
Public Events
… stories in American life from the assassination of John F. Kennedy at the beginning of his career, through the … : Of all time. Of all time even only Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were worse to each other than these two folks are …
Presidential Speeches
… here of one who, for a time, has been absent. Senator John Stennis, God bless you and welcome back. There is, … cause. Two of our Founding Fathers, a Boston lawyer named Adams and a Virginia planter named Jefferson, members of that …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project
… influence in high places, exercise it. Kilberg I’ll call [John] Casteen, but I don’t think he has any control, does he? … in the White House as a Fellow? Kilberg Yes, I worked for John Ehrlichman in the [Richard] Nixon White House. Riley Do … a group called the Filer Commission, which was headed by John Filer who had been president of Aetna, and it consisted …
Presidential Recordings
… Location: Executive Office Building The President met with John D. Ehrlichman. Department of Health, Education and … -Weinberger’s justification -Jacob K. Javits -John B. Connally -Nixon Democrat -Drafting of new list -HEW … (cont’d) -Lyndon B. Johnson -Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sherman Adams -Ervin Committee -Information from White House …
Presidential Recordings
… Location: Executive Office Building The President met with John D. Ehrlichman. Department of Health, Education and … -Weinberger’s justification -Jacob K. Javits -John B. Connally -Nixon Democrat -Drafting of new list -HEW … (cont’d) -Lyndon B. Johnson -Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sherman Adams -Ervin Committee -Information from White House …
Presidential Recordings
… Location: Executive Office Building The President met with John D. Ehrlichman. Department of Health, Education and … -Weinberger’s justification -Jacob K. Javits -John B. Connally -Nixon Democrat -Drafting of new list -HEW … (cont’d) -Lyndon B. Johnson -Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sherman Adams -Ervin Committee -Information from White House …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project
… the transition? If you did, why was it you didn’t use a [John F.] Kennedy model a little more with Dick Neustadt and Adam Yarmolinsky and outside people doing a lot of the … it more an effort to distance himself from the Haldeman-[John] Ehrlichman syndrome? Moe Both. I think both. Young I …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project
… on that side. USTR was not on that side. Elliott Was that John Shattuck at State? Barshefsky Yes. Shattuck had a very … interaction at a number of points, but particularly with John Deutch when he was head of the CIA, whether on issues of … to be here. It’s particularly wonderful to be here with John, whom I admire greatly. It is a little intimidating …