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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Barnes relates how she became part of Edward Kennedy’s Judiciary Committee … ] Knott I think the best place to start is to ask you how you became a part of Senator Kennedy’s Judiciary … of staff then and the legislative director, Carey Parker. He’s been with the Senator forever. They recommended me to …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… such groups, including the American Medical Association. He outlines how close the country was to a plan in the summer of 1974, … looking at it both from the administration standpoint—How did you interact with people on the Hill? So tell me when … of [Robert] Finch, who became the Secretary of HEW, and he brought with him two other people: the Under Secretary, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… 10, 2007. Why don’t we start at the beginning. Tell us how you first met Kennedy. Fauci I knew that was going to be … the first people to get involved in HIV back in 1981, and he was among—if not among, then the first politician who … then a lot of other people came in after that. Heininger Did Kennedy’s interest start this early? Fauci You know, to …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Gifford describes how he came to work for Kennedy, including his work on various … not in the same class at Harvard. Ted’s older than I am; he graduated in ’54 and I graduated in 1960, but we had … loved him. He teased them, they teased him back. You know how he is. You’ve been around him enough. Knott Can you tell …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Riley Let me start with a little bit of biography. Tell us how you first got interested in politics. Mathews In 1972, I … the first interview of the candidate, Rockefeller, when he comes back, and that's the year he wins. I've always been … Johnson] intern. This was an intern program set up by President Johnson so that students who needed to make money …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Center. Brain I’m Chuck Brain, founder, sole employee, and president of Capitol Hill Strategies, a Washington, D.C. … you about is your relationship with Dan Rostenkowski and how that played on your later understanding of …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director of the White … of Science and Technology Policy] and Assistant to the President. I’ve done a number of other things since then, but … with a bit of personal biography, so if you could tell us how a doctor, a scientist, came to serve or be involved in …
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| Bill Clinton Project… with Alan Simpson. We’re in Washington, D.C., March 2008. He is here to talk with us about his experiences as a Senator … or whatever, and I’d go. George is a very dear friend. I did tell him that I thought it was very important that he …
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| George W. Bush Project… unitary executive theory; his relationship with Vice President Dick Cheney; Vladimir Putin; the War on Terror; the … so I think they tended to be Democrats. On my dad's side, he was a superintendent of the shops for the E, J & E [Elgin, … got up on the floor of the House and basically said, "Mr. President, you need to resign," and he went on, "for the same …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Actually we did the last one this morning. Riley No kidding. Pickering So … to know that that exists. So we also talked off tape about how we would proceed, and you said the first thing we ought … to talk about is how you come to know— Pickering Vice President, then President Bush. Riley George Bush. So I’ll …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… then all that happened to John F. [Kennedy], winning the Presidency against [Richard M.] Nixon, were things we were … didn’t do the missionary work. They didn’t do Africa. They did do all over America, Virginia and Boston, Honolulu and Newfoundland. And John F. Kennedy, before he was President, came there. We had photographs at home of …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that we might start by talking about the early days: when he joined Senator Kennedy’s staff in 1969, how that came about, and what he was principally involved … work for him in the late ’60s, I had worked quite a bit on President [Lyndon] Johnson’s crime legislation, and I had …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Personal Assistant to the President … Stephen Goodin Personal Assistant to the President Participants: Russell Riley, University of … in Pennsylvania and interning for Rep. Martin Frost. He goes on to work on Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential … who would go on to serve important consultant roles for President Clinton's campaign, were leading the campaign for …
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| Bill Clinton Project… troop readiness, Iraq, and general impressions of President William J. Clinton and key White House officials. … Is it accurate in a sense? When you were growing up, did you pay attention to politics? Were you in any way … W.] Bush. We would monitor these conversations so if the President tells the SecDef, I want to get this done, and I …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… setup and organization of Senator Edward Kennedy’s staff. He talks about his work writing speeches for Kennedy and the … variety of subjects that even then—This is from 1967, so he had been in the Senate from '63, just over four years. …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… and policymaking in the Labor Department during the Carter presidency. He begins with his decision to join the administration as … often contentious relationship between Carter and AFL-CIO President George Meany. He also examines his work on key … was testimony from some people, not necessarily from this Presidency but in others, that in this setting, that is not …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… development working in Senator Edward Kennedy’s office. He talks about his relationship with Kennedy after leaving … evolution of the Senate as an institution over the years. He also discusses judicial appointments, including the Alito, … middle of it, Lou Oberdorfer's mother died, I think, and he disappeared. Because the Justice Department was in charge, …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… post-presidential years, and his frequent interaction with President Reagan. The key events of this period are discussed … of the family and one of the closest aides during the post-presidency, Ryan also includes a wealth of observations on … terrific conversation with him. When he decided to run for President in 1980, I had finished law school and had just …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… [Gerald L.] Baliles, the former Governor of Virginia. He’s the new director of the center. He’s had a few things to … your observations about Ted Kennedy over these many years? How did you get to know him? Dole I don’t recall when I first …
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| Bill Clinton Project… administration. I wanted to start with your background. How did you get to be majority staff director? Dyer I came to the …