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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… at the beginning. Tell me when you first met Kennedy and how you came to work for him. Soderberg I worked on the … person, and I worked directly for him, doing whatever he needed. I eventually would take over certain issues, but he was the senior person. Jim Steinberg did the Armed Services Committee. Then Jim left and Bill Lynn …
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| Bill Clinton Project… in college, and I enjoyed doing that. Riley This is when he was at the economics— Cutler He was in the economics … factual stuff. For example, they would need something on how the economy was doing on a particular thing, depending …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… health insurance bill. Very little is said about President Reagan in the course of the interview, with the … like to start off by just making some observations about how you came to join the administration? Or is there another … time. They had the call transferred to me, and it was the President on the other end asking if I would be his nominee …
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| Bill Clinton Project… want to come to this transcript to learn about the Clinton Presidency and the time running up to it as it truly was. The … March of 1990 through August of 1991, in the period that he shaped the agenda that he ran on for President in 1992. Morrisroe Darby Morrisroe, assistant …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with Ted Kennedy about Ireland. One of them occurred after he had come back from the Stormont power-sharing ceremony, … played from very early times, going back to Jimmy Carter’s Presidency, is not well known, except among the people in the … people understand, in this very complicated situation, how an American Senator whose name was Kennedy, happened to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and Senator Kennedy’s reaction to it, as well as his own. He reminisces about his own life and career and touches on how Senator Kennedy changed over the years. There is mention … Actually, Ted had been preparing—I should say, since he is now Senator Kennedy—Senator Kennedy had been working in …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Simpson How are you? Knott We’re doing fine. Simpson I see. Heininger … to me. I don’t have an agent. Then I hired an agent who did nothing. He sat on his butt, but offered to take me to dinner one …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… President of Brazil, 1995-2003 … speak into the recorder just a little bit of history about how we came to this pass. This interview was originally … the only one who is translating what I recorded when I was President. She makes the transcription. She had an interest …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… reduction, the BTU tax, the Congressional climate during President William J. Clinton's first term, and White House … so I went back there. I had a degree in chemistry, which I did not like and was not good at. I knew I wanted to work in … here, working for Mondale, so he was working in the Vice President’s office when we came to town. He had called …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… begin. You came to the House in 1978, I believe. Daschle I did. Young And you moved from there to the Senate in 1987. … when I was contemplating running for the Senate in ’85, he was one who reached out to me and encouraged me to …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… to that role, but it’s unclear from what I read what you did and how that played into the later arguments and fights over … of money to what was a terribly flawed campaign. So he sent a group from his organization to California to …
Presidential Biographies
… In his last debate with President Jimmy Carter in 1980, Ronald Reagan asked the … the Soviet Union. Along with most other national leaders, he had supported the fundamental policy of containing the … adopted in 1947 and was subsequently followed by all Presidents of both parties. But Reagan believed that the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy discusses the Vietnam War and the lessons he learned from it. … war and so forth. Why don’t we start out by my asking you how you got initially involved in the Vietnam question, and … my older brother Jack [Kennedy], about foreign policy. He believed very strongly that at the end of the Second World …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Jennings: Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy; Lambrew: associate director at … And I’m Chris Jennings, former Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy. I served in the White House for eight years—six years as the President’s Senior Health Care Policy Advisor, and two years …
Presidential Biographies
… newspapers in anticipation of talking with Abraham when he came to bed about what was newsworthy and to hear his … to Lincoln's two minutes, confided afterwards to the President: "My speech will soon be forgotten, yours never will be. How gladly would I exchange my hundred pages for your twenty …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… inspired in terms of political judgments by my brothers, President [John F.] Kennedy and Bob [Robert Kennedy]. I had … [Michael] Mansfield was the majority leader, and I thought he’d be there. I had a lot of respect for Mansfield. He was …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Assistant to the President; Ambassador to Iceland … speechwriter Peggy Noonan’s “read my lips” line from Vice President Bush’s 1988 convention speech, Bush’s decision to … the record, this is an interview with Sig Rogich with the President George H. W. Bush Oral History Project, 41 as the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… You had made a trip to Ireland while your brother was President, but that was not for purposes of dealing with the … Fitz ] Fitzgerald. Do you want to talk about that a bit? He also visited your mother in London, and you apparently … over there. It doesn’t surprise me at all that Grandpa did come to London. Those are marvelous stories that we’ll …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… had the integration of the military during this period, by President [Harry] Truman’s Executive order. The mood … out there in foreign policy. The country turned in to see how we resolved some of these issues, and race was the issue … prayers. That was a controversial issue and he spoke to it. He also spoke to the issue of civil rights, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in connection with a trip that I had taken with Sarge when he was a candidate for the Presidency at a time when people took his candidacy quite …