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Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… left Lehigh University and came to Washington. We went to what we call the halfway house, the Congressional Budget … former Congressman. While doing that, I got offered a job to direct the speechwriting group at the Tennessee Valley …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… in the room who is free to leave the room and discuss what we talk about. I’m proud to say that we have an … Then the next year after graduate school I got my first job as a researcher for a study on arms control. That turned …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… a result of dialogue with my professors, of where teaching jobs were going to be. By then there was a glut of professors of American history, so there were really no job prospects. By the time I was through most of my master’s, … you come to choose your specific dissertation topic, and what were the language resources and others that you brought …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… would be our main focus from the Bush Presidency. A lot of what we read about your time as Speaker, or the beginnings of … that I want to ask you about. That is that one of the jobs, I guess, of the Speaker is to serve as an institutional …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… so you don’t have to have firsthand knowledge of what we’re talking about. There are a couple of things that I … somehow in foreign policy. I had no idea how you get a job working in the foreign policy world. I’d actually never …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… and there seems to be a good deal of convergence between what you’d like to talk about and what we’d like to hear … they said that the President wanted me to take those two jobs. Later, while in the process of trying to decide, I had …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… with a few words by you, Stu. Spencer In reference to what you mentioned about information leaving the room, I can … starting to run for state legislature, for Congress, and jobs like that. A lot of them were friends of mine. So, as in … Goldwater and his weaknesses. Frankly we did a very good job of it. All of a sudden they forgot all about Happy and …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… head no. This was just to help refresh your memory about what we did last time. We’ve all looked at it, and basically … with a very broad question. That is, tell us what your job description was when you went into the White House. You …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… down some criteria or ground rules for these commissions, what you wanted and what they were supposed to do? Kennedy It … it’s a very impressive effort, mobilizing groups to do the job. I’d like to hear about how you managed to do this in …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… tape about the sequence of things that we'll talk about. What I didn't mention was a reemphasis of our ground rule, … you to give us your perceptions as a close outsider of what's going on, but if there is not much more there, then …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… science? Morrisroe In political science. Knott Tell him what you’re writing your dissertation on. Morrisroe The White … people from the Dole campaign, recommended me for the one job I was interested in—Treasury General Counsel. That, I …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Tell us a little bit about your preparation for the job. Cutler It started when I was an undergraduate at … from MIT in 1991 and took a position at Harvard. Riley What kind of work were you actually doing with Dukakis? You …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Presidential History Project. I will mention on the record what we discussed off the record. The Judge is familiar with … and obviously I remained interested in politics. My first job out of law school was as a law clerk in Washington. …
Presidential Speeches
… offering up his qualifications and resources for the job. … an habitual attachment to it and veneration for it. What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… to win. I looked at him as if to say, There’s no way. What are you talking about? You’re such a romantic. He said, … have to be right there to say, Here’s what to say. Here’s what’s going on. You have to be on the phone and able to hand …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Senator Kennedy’s staff in 1969, how that came about, and what he was principally involved with at the outset. If we … and Procedure Subcommittee. I was very interested in the job, one thing led to another, and I started work shortly …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… be determined. Knott Site to be determined, correct. But what you say in this room today will stay in this room. And … get out of law school [ laughs ]. I was ready to do a real job and I sometimes look back and wonder how I ever graduated …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… important and the way he wants to address them is what we’d like to hear. We don’t have sets of questions we … Economics and was in the process of looking for a job. And in the spring of that year, though I was in graduate …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… by asking a little bit of background information. What was your executive and legislative branch experience … to discuss why these cases were so sensitive. Although my job was primarily litigation, I also had some …
Oral History Interviews
| Gerald Ford Project… decision is one in which the President is not surprised at what happened after that decision was made, that he has been … get things to the President in an orderly way so he knows what’s going to happen and makes a judgment. But he’s …