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Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… House’s relationship to the intelligence community and the President’s Daily Brief (PDB); flow of communication; the … and defense policy; NSC’s approach to analyzing issues; President George H. W. Bush’s strengths and weaknesses in … story thus far. Your story is that you were contacted by President-elect Bush around Thanksgiving, that he invited you …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… camera. She said to me coming over here, she said, “Isn’t he getting tired of taking all these pictures?” Kennedy Isn’t … Harry Reid and Dick Durbin were down visiting with the President and the President said, “It would be good if we get …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… General Edward L. Rowny begins this interview by discussing how he first met Ronald Reagan. He discusses the Strategic Arms … my curiosity. Knott Could we begin with me asking simply how you first met Ronald Reagan? What were your initial … as the Governor. I wasn’t sure which Governor this was. He said that he had heard about my testimony against SALT II …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Young Mr. Barr understands that he will be the only one, aside from those who produce the … we study, so that the voices and story of the Presidency, as it was seen by those who knew it best, can be …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… family and of the Kennedy family during his childhood. He speaks of his mother’s death and how that brought about even closer relationships with his … a better sense of Senator Kennedy and the times in which he lived. So we always try to make an appeal to people’s …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs … control; his work with other congressional liaisons; Vice President Al Gore; health care reform; lobbying; press … In 1993 I was Chief Congressional Relations Officer for President Clinton. Riley Splendid. We always like to begin by …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… key members of the cabinet and the White House staff. He also highlights the many issues involved in staffing a new … a beautiful corner office. Of course, when you change Presidency, all the pictures and art come down for the new … when I was there at the [Richard] Nixon administration. He was the curator and he knew I’d been interested in history …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… have been comparable to the Great Society. We hadn’t had a President we could work with for a long time. It had been … was taking a back seat. Instead, the basic issue became, how do we stop this Republican juggernaut? Starting in 1995, … was, Let’s see if we can get some worthwhile things done. He felt that it should be possible to work with some …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of Edward Kennedy and some insights into his character. He also contrasts the Kennedy brothers and talks a little … you want. Clasby I saw that. [BREAK] Clasby All of them did. The oldest son went to Harvard and he played hockey. Lettered in hockey. The next boy went to …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… ask him to review and edit the transcript in such a way as he thinks necessary for its use as source material for some monographs on the Carter Presidency that would be commissioned by the Center. I’ve … that let’s begin, by inviting you to tell us a bit about how you got involved with Jimmy Carter and the Carter White …
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… How the issue of immigration needs Trump … to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. He smashed the code of silence about an issue that is … moral high ground loses some of its luster when one notes how the party benefits from immigration. Democrats currently …
How the issue of immigration needs Trump
Presidential Biographies
… memory, at age three, was of the fifty-mile horseback ride he took with his father's slave into the Virginia wilderness. … Historians view Jefferson's reasoning as an example of how even the most brilliant of minds can fail to escape the … Thomas Jefferson: Life Before the Presidency …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… with Carter prior to the 1976 presidential race. He discusses some general topics on the administration, such … responsibilities as Attorney General and some issue areas he was most closely involved in, such as foreign intelligence … may be able to educate us a little about, is Carter before he became President. Not many of the people who have been …
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… NOT A NORMAL TRANSITION President-elect Biden attempts to project an air of calm … THE COSTS OF DELAY The president-elect moves forward, but what are the risks of … sitting vice president—might benefit and win the presidency. Johnson was livid, but he sat on the information …
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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in future generations, understand what kind of person he was, and help them to see the authentic man that turned … term if we didn’t spend all of our time studying, but we did take Saturday afternoon off. We played touch football; we …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… President, Sinn Féin Party … had been discussing strategy and conflict resolution and how we would build a political party and just construe a … and we’d been doing quite a lot of work in the States, and he saw shifts in what was happening here, just below the … election season after which Bill Clinton was elected as President, John organized a conference in New York to which …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with Kennedy, and some events from the Carter and Reagan presidencies. … of Government, at Harvard, and the other was the work he [Edward Kennedy] asked you to undertake as head of the … early winter. Clearly, the association with Boston and President [John F.] Kennedy, the water, and his love of the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and everything, and Bobby Kennedy announced that he was going to run for the Presidency that year. I knew a couple of people who knew some … Carlisle, and some of his staff. They looked at me like, How old are you? Because I was so young, I lied about my age …
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| Bill Clinton Project… ninety-two was a very unusual year politically. The first President [George H.W.] Bush started out that election cycle … a partisan, but I would argue that one first-tier Democrat did run and won, and his name was Bill Clinton. Of all the Democrats at that time who were seen as credible Presidents—Bill Bradley, Sam Nunn, Al Gore, Mario Cuomo, …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… working at the Republican National Committee (RNC). He continues discussing his RNC work as national political … Perot, Dan Quayle, and general impressions of the Bush presidency. Participants: Stephen Knott, University of … University], I think, who was an oral history guy. I think he worked with the archives. He was pretty famous. I can't …