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Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… in the midst of the Watergate crisis, her impressions of President Gerald Ford as his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointment to be President George H. W. Bush’s Trade Representative, as well … practice law, litigating in the Federal courts. I became president of the Women Lawyers’ Bar Association in 1964. In …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself: how you first became involved with Edward Kennedy or any sort … At the same time, with a very young and enthusiastic President [John F.] Kennedy, I saw the country moving in a … Mr. Don Dowd who was showing a film of Senator Kennedy as he visited the three I’s —Italy, Ireland, and Israel. At the …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… to start would be to ask you if you could tell us about how you first met both George and Barbara Bush, and the … Surely, right. I met them, actually, in my role as then president and dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine. Our …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… through Texas. I don’t remember this in great detail, but he was on a campaign swing through Texas, I believe as an … friend, just to see what was going on. So it was a, Hi, how are ya? Nice to meet ya, but we didn’t spend any time … until I had been hired to be his staff director. Heininger Did you meet him in the hiring process? Rollins No, I was …
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… the U.N. resolutions, and the failing economic sanctions, President George W. Bush had been considering how to deal with Iraq since his first meeting of the National … that a specific invasion plan for Iraq was underway, he began receiving briefings from U.S. Central Command on a …
Iraq refused to comply with U.N. disarmament requirements and had the potential to produce weapons of mass destruction. So the Bush 43 administration considered Saddam Hussein’s regime a dangerous threat.
Presidential Biographies
… secessionists, the convention named Jefferson Davis as president of the new nation. Davis was a Mississippi … independent sovereignty as colonies and territories. He claimed that the states had accepted unconditionally the …
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… Rather than uniting the nation, President Trump's first weeks in office seem to have deepened polarization and anxiety. How he responds to those expectations and anxieties will set … President Donald Trump took office in a situation of … in office seem to have deepened polarization and anxiety. How he responds to those expectations and anxieties will set …
Rather than uniting the nation, President Trump's first weeks in office seem to have deepened polarization and anxiety. How he responds to those expectations and anxieties will set the tone for his term of office.
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Chief of Staff to Vice President Bush … administration, as the Cabinet Secretary, to lead Vice President Bush’s staff in 1985. Fuller recalls some of the sixty trips abroad that he made with the Vice President, including to Poland before … persuaded me. Of course, at the time Richard Nixon was President and Ronald Reagan was Governor. The fateful call …
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… President Joe Biden’s decision to step aside as the … perfect: Johnson made his announcement in March, not July; he had not yet secured the nomination, although he was the … of Lyndon Johnson’s motivation to seek the power of the presidency. Deprived of the ability to advance it, he had …
Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 election inevitably leads to comparisons with Johnson’s withdrawal from the 1968 election.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… it will stand in great significance. As I pointed out, we did something about health: Medicare and Medicaid. We did … happened to be up at the apartment at 122 Bowdoin Street. He wrote out for me three or four pages about the role of …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… begins the first day with his family’s acquaintance with President George H. W. Bush; Gray’s work during the Ronald … and some possible White House changes in a second-term presidency; and the 1990 government shutdown. Participants … I’d like to welcome Boyden Gray, former counsel to Vice President Bush and to President Bush. Just a few words I …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… in Congressional partisanship, the relationship with Vice President Al Gore, and Clinton's impeachment. … work since Jimmy Carter’s time, so I’ve done interviews on Presidents Carter, [Ronald] Reagan, [George H. W.] Bush 41 … about your relationship with Bill Clinton before he became President. You were both politically active at the same time. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… We’re starting today on the so-called [Ronald] Reagan era—how it began, how it turned out, and what some of the high … After the 1978 election, at the beginning of 1979, he had become, by seniority, chairman of the Judiciary … first two years as chairman, though, he was running for President, so he hadn’t really established himself yet as …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of Edward Kennedy, particularly as a legislator. He speaks of Kennedy’s “across-the-aisle” partnerships. He discusses the Clinton administration’s health care efforts … were your initial impressions of Kennedy? Hilley Well, he’s a very imposing person. His reputation precedes him, so …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… [John F.] Kennedy and [Lyndon] Johnson administrations. He’d been a professor at Harvard, and he had put together a very interesting summary of the tax laws. He explained how a great deal of the tax breaks and tax incentives …
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… Their Use" (1996). Used with permission. One week after President Johnson's death on January 22, 1973, his longtime … contained in the FRC boxes to be very sensitive and that he had instructed they were to remain sealed for fifty years …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs; White House Political Director; Counselor to the President; Senior Advisor for Policy and Strategy … the Clinton administration as deputy assistant to the president for legislative affairs. He becomes political …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… lot of talk about which priorities will be first in line. He’s clearly in a frame of mind where he doesn’t want to … to concentrate on the economy first. The question is, how much else will there be room for? We’re hoping that …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC]. I believe he’d been acting in that post for some time, but let history … of what they felt the EEOC was supposed to be about, and he did not favor most of the enforcement approaches that …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… and comparing Bush to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He comments on Bush’s extensive background in foreign affairs … his work with Bush in the first Gulf War and comments on how closely the British and U.S. worked together. He … defends the coalition’s decision to stop the war when it did and not pursue regime change. Major comments on the …