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Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… few in Atlanta who supported him initially. He was a great campaigner, but that’s another story. I was really impressed … when he was finally out of it. But then and in his later campaign for Governor, I got the feeling he would go further. … anybody running for Governor in Georgia had ever really campaigned in the black community. He didn’t have a black …
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… pressure for national health insurance. During the 1960 campaign, John Kennedy called for a Social Security-based program of federal … Known as the King-Anderson bill after its chief sponsors, Kennedy’s Medicare bill covered hospital and nursing home …
The passage of Medicare and Medicaid represented one of the most significant accomplishments of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Together, they formed critical components of perhaps the most successful "first year” presidency in U.S. history.
Presidential Recordings
… -Henry A. Kissinger -William P. Rogers -Col. Richard T. Kennedy -Wage and price control Ziegler’s forthcoming press … W. Kalmbach -Check from teachers' fund for McGovern -Campaign finances -Birthday story -New York Times -Wire story …
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… ultimately just two individuals, President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev—held the … 1959, Kennedy called for overthrowing the new regime. His campaign rhetoric sharpened the politics of Cold War … inexperience, and mandate for power, such talk narrowed Kennedy’s room to maneuver once he entered the White House. …
With the clouds of war darkening over the Korean Peninsula and an impulsive and untested president in the Oval Office, the threat of nuclear war looms larger than it has in a generation. Now that such threats and fears have returned, it’s worth revisiting lessons from that moment, 55 years ago, when the world looked into the abyss of Armageddon.
Presidential Biographies
… Urban League, Brown worked for a short time as the deputy campaign manager for Senator Edward Kennedy. From 1981 to 1986, Brown was a lobbyist and lawyer …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… to the White House, and his work on all three presidential campaigns, including his 1976 challenge to incumbent … Reagan. He is a selfless human being. I can remember campaigning with him, remember him serving as President, and … very quickly in my own case—I’d been around Presidential campaigns enough so I wouldn’t be naïve about it. And …
Presidential Recordings
… of gift] 1972 election -Development of issues -Young’s campaign -Bush country -Percent of vote [End segment reviewed … companies -Statewide network -Anchorage -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy’s advertisements -President’s budget cuts -Walter J. …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… now, if it still exists. Also during the course of the campaign they would do what they called the speech kit, which … forget how many weeks, maybe it was ten speeches as the campaign heated up—prefab speeches that could go out to any …
Presidential Recordings
… Office Building The President met with Col. Richard T. Kennedy. -3- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape … negotiations -Henry A. Kissinger's report from Paris -Kennedy's conversation with Kissinger -Meeting -Timing … conversation with Kennedy -Postponement of meeting -Kennedy’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Kennedy’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… relationship. I had not been a formal part of the campaign because, as chief executive officer, I felt my … debates were his strong suit, even in his gubernatorial campaigns—as those debates occurred, he was very skilled. … the Senate, both sides of the aisle. In fact, I recall his campaigning for Senator [Frank] Lautenberg in New Jersey, who …
Presidential Recordings
… -Colson -Issue -Danger of perspective -Election campaign -Effect on Watergate issue handling -Colson -Promise … disclosures -Hearsay nature of evidence -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy -Surveillance -Legitimacy -Personal life -Disclosures …
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… how best to prepare for such crises when they come. John Kennedy thought his first year was a disaster, and indeed the … rely for foreign policy advice on staff from the election campaign or other party loyalists, and fail to surround … By canvassing the first years of five recent presidents—Kennedy, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43—Miller Center …
Volume 2 of the First Year project, focusing on national security
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… from the outset. This was in contrast to the [John F.] Kennedy round, where the Congress approved really nothing … final primaries, the convention, and the general election campaign. Again, that was a different kind of a White House, … set of events from running any other kind of organization. Campaigns are totally voluntary, and you’re grateful for …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… on our board. Plus, we had our first national fundraising campaign and she was our draw. We held luncheons around the … I had with my father was in 1960, during the Nixon-Kennedy election cycle, when I told my father I was going to … as you know, Barbara is a charmer. She's probably a better campaigner than Bush himself. So it came off very well. …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… and my dad now becoming anti-Roosevelt. Then the ’48 campaign, which was the first year I was eligible to vote, … Scott Yes. Derwinski Ideology wasn’t an issue in the first campaign. It was more geography and distribution of … during the Vietnam War, I was supportive of [John F.] Kennedy and [Lyndon] Johnson engaging in Vietnam. I had no …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… rich, including Josh's biography and particularly the campaign and the transition. One of the things we talked … with the President. In the case of education that was Ted Kennedy in the Senate, George Miller in the House, and John … That's not something that is on your agenda as you're campaigning and talking about issues and policies, yet it …
Presidential Recordings
… W. (“Teddy”) Gleason -Irish Institute of New York -John F. Kennedy Award -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Colson’s message from … -Paul Hall -The President's message -Gleason’s patriotism -Kennedy -Relationship with the President -Belief in strong … 1972 campaign -Corruption -Confidence in the President compared to …
Presidential Speeches
… when a real crisis comes, will be found wanting. During my campaign for the Presidency, I pledged to bring Americans … war in Korea and avoided war in the Middle East. John F. Kennedy, in his finest hour, made the great decision which …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… it had passed its prime by the time I started working in campaigns. Bill Galston and I saw this firsthand, because we … and it was a disaster. He lost everything. The Mondale campaign for many of us was a big eye opener. The fact that … is very interesting, vis-à-vis that Clinton was campaigning in New Hampshire. Riley : In ’91? Kamarck : Yes, …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… to another and I got involved, not long thereafter, in his campaign, both from a fundraising point of view and from the … as effective as Clinton since JFK [John Fitzgerald Kennedy]. I just remember that being contemporaneous with the … including in New York. Riley You’d worked in a couple of campaigns before this one, or you’d been involved in …