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Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… a chance to get out and walk around a little bit and see what it is that would draw somebody back. So I think it would … able to come back to California. When I was offered the job as Chief of Staff, I said that I would take the President … lost the primary. We had to move on. I was offered several jobs on Capitol Hill. Ed Brooke had offered me a job to work …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… I'm originally from Northern Idaho—the back woods. It's what we now call a "red state," the most Republican state in … Finally, I succumbed to the temptation to look for a job in Washington and wrote to a handful of Democrats who …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… something in— Barnes Great. That takes the pressure off. What I meant to say was—the best boss I ever had. [ laughs ] … would say, Thank you, I appreciated that. You did a great job with that, and he would celebrate. I’ll never forget, …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… primary. It wasn’t intended to be the first primary, but what happened was that New Hampshire, being a very … Weber, who was the Kemp guy, both thought I did a good job. I guess Rove asked around and they said I did a good …
Presidential Biographies
… Nixon adopted a policy of monetary restraint to cool what his advisers saw as an overheating economy. … government took an active role in preventing on-the-job accidents and deaths when Nixon in 1970 signed into law a … they're going to start picking up other tracks. That's what appeals to me about trying to get one jump ahead of them …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… and I was ending it even before I got the speechwriting job, but the media is often very slow to understand these … is secret before it is said, but there was a feeling that what we were doing was far more confidential. In fact, we did … conference where he would say, "I'd like now to talk about what's happening in Bosnia this week." That would come to our …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… wants to say something off the record, he will identify what that is. It will not be transcribed so it will not be … approached by Vernon again. He asked would I consider the job? By that time I had remarried, my wife and I were both …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… in it and we don’t want to spend a lot of time repeating what appears there. You’re a very disciplined person who is … business, deputy battalion commander and some other jobs, and then I was selected to command a battalion, which …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… with the George W. Bush administration. We've talked about what is going to happen with these recordings, and Mr. … McGurn Yes, he did. He retired at 50 and then had other jobs, running security for different companies and so forth. …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… liability law reform, Dirk Van Dongen, and he offered me a job as head of government affairs for the National … in 41, who was the principal? Calio Fred McClure. Perry What caused you in seventh grade to want to work in …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… and really worked across the aisle. Very different from what you see in Washington today. So at the time, I was … were just trying to position themselves for subsequent jobs in the Clinton administration. It was a lot of hard work …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… my voice. Brantly Womack I'm Brantly Womack. I don't know what I'm the only one of, but only Brantly Womack, and I … who I knew, in part because he'd once interviewed me for a job at the Brookings Institution—for which he didn't hire me, …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… or how it was done. I’d like to try to get your sense of what Carter was looking for in his Cabinet appointments, and … have done is gotten in debt and would have been out of a job. When he announced that he was appointing David Gambrell …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… of farmers’ kids and mechanics. I honestly did not know what a prep school was when I got to college. I didn’t know … self-educated manure carter (that was his day job in Dublin) named James Connolly. He was a classic … you had to complete and send back to them to get these jobs. Riley Is that right? Zinsmeister Yes, even totally …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Haass This is Richard Haass. Strong And Bob Strong. Knott What we like to do usually is just ask you to tell us a … [ chuckling ] I need to say, the first year of my first job was in the early ’70s, first as an intern, then as a …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… and Counterterrorism Advisor from 2004 until 2008. Riley What we usually like to do is start getting a little bit of … I grew up in Nassau County, and you didn't get a county job if you weren't a registered Republican. This was the era …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… that election. We don't want to rob too much time from what happens in the 43rd Presidency, but if you could indulge … I went to school on student loans and I also worked three jobs. I was a Senate parking lot attendant; I was a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of a more progressive type of political structure than what I saw us having under [Dwight] Eisenhower, who was a … the hell are you doing? He gave me this smile and said, What’s wrong, can’t you take it? I remember thinking that …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… of words to aid the transcriber in making voice IDs with what comes. So Dick, let’s start with you. Thornburgh I’m … Joe Barr, the Pittsburgh mayor, on who should have the job as a Democrat. So when the Republicans won and we had a …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Albans, so I grew up in a government environment. Perry What did your mother do? Bolten My mother was actually maybe … really identified myself as a Republican until I got a job as a Republican. Then I said, OK, that's your mantle, …