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… through the purchase and coinage of silver undermined confidence in the American dollar and punished creditors by … of women's rights was to criticize polygamy. Economic Crisis Cleveland's second administration began in 1893, just …
Presidential Recordings
… efforts -Administration policy -John D. Ehrlichman -Confidence in economy -Wage/price board -Federal Reserve Board -International economics -Monetary crisis -Effect on US money -Exchange rates -Housing -Housing … tycoons -Reaction to suggestions -International monetary crisis Conv. No. 514-8 (cont.) -Federal Reserve Board …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… et cetera, the staffing process during the Cuban missile crisis—in a process like that, that’s not seat-of-the-pants, … But Kennedy isn’t like that. For Carter, the hostage crisis really screwed up that last year in a lot of respects. … No, not quite. The wall is down. The Baltics are still a crisis. We were in the Kremlin with [Mikhail] Gorbachev, and …
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… 30 percent in the most recent poll of Americans’ faith and confidence in the “jewel in the crown” of our judicial … is thrown into sharp relief by a recent domestic political crisis in Sweden and an extraordinary interview granted by … was seeking concessions from Washington. He expressed confidence that Turkey could work out an agreement with …
Presidential Recordings
… Department -President’s forthcoming meeting -Monetary crisis -Automobiles -Peterson's meeting with Lee A. Iacocca … Board [FRB] -Schedule -President’s possible statement -Confidence -Connally and Paul W. McCracken -Connally's role …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Participants: Russell Riley, University of Virginia, Interview Team Chair Barbara Perry, University of Virginia Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia Stephen Long, University of Richmond Khalilzad … the second plane had hit the tower. There was an immediate crisis atmosphere, and Condi was rushed out. Clarke said, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… months so it would have been too soon to make any kind of confident judgment on that. The sense I had was more as a … of fronts. One was, he was at a point where he was quite confident of his position and ability to talk without … in retrospect it had to be this way—they were just not confident of his ability to sustain a conversation, so he …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… and Ben Bernanke. Paulson moves on to the financial crisis by talking about mortgages and working with Rep. … industry and foreclosures, the bond market, the auto crisis, effectively communicating the solutions to the crisis to the general public, working with executives on Wall …
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… of moves and countermoves whose only reliable product is crisis. Soon enough Trump will be immersed in high-adrenaline crisis management around the world. Here are some strategic … alarm and even panic, especially since American and global confidence was shaken by the financial crisis of 2008. China …
The problem with an isolationist interpretation of “America First” is that America is not isolated. Global withdrawal means cutting the bonds of mutual interest. From its beginnings, the U.S. has been a commercial nation, and it has been the political and economic center of the global order for the last 70 years. Making America great again requires global leadership, and leadership is interactive. China is not an obstacle to American leadership, but China policy is its greatest challenge.
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… made clear what the job required was good judgment and the confidence of both the Attorney General and the FBI Director … I was going to help the Attorney General. She was in a crisis. I never hesitated, never even thought about any of … successful changes then inspired people and gave them confidence later when I asked them to do bigger, harder, more …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… as anything else we had those people available that we had confidence in. Young The Vice President was given, after this … then in his early 30s, as you know. He gained a lot of confidence in himself during the next couple of decades. I … be threatened. Here was a man in Carter who was a very confident individual. You didn’t have to worry that—it was …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… first with [Edward] Kennedy, then with the hostage crisis, then the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. There were … about what happens when a White House gets paralyzed by a crisis the way we were paralyzed with the Bert Lance crisis. … and write a tax bill and leave with a high degree of confidence that it would pass pretty much in the form they’d …
Presidential Recordings
… energy source -Pastore and Anderson -Discussions in confidence -Baker -Cabinet -Ronald W. Reagan -Dwight D. … -Joint Committee on Atomic Energy -Melvin Price Energy -Crisis 4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… everything would work out positively. It was that sense of confidence that you need, but I think in retrospect, we … the circle small in terms of the confidences, remember the confidence comes because it has been hard-won inside of there. There’s a trust and a confidence in their ability and how they handle pressure, …
Presidential Biographies
… in the first few years of the war. The Confederacy confidently expected England to escort Confederate cotton … out of the war. Southern Belligerency Status The first crisis occurred when England issued a proclamation of …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… really push the refugee issue. Because it really was a crisis. The Samarra bombing had happened in February, and it … and she had been out to the region talking about the crisis. I remember thinking, Boy, wouldn’t it be spectacular … Kennedy and [Adlai] Stevenson and the Cuban Missile Crisis were in the backdrop. It was all there. I’ve heard the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… signatures. During that campaign we had the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was in October of that year, and the world was on … made no impression on them. I mean, they had complete confidence and trust that the military machine was going to … would have worked out otherwise, but I really feel very confident that he was beginning to understand that this was a …
Presidential Biographies
… supported the goal of a non-Communist Vietnam, public confidence in the President and Johnson's popularity … club."Johnson was able to defuse one potential nuclear crisis: In 1967, after the Arab-Israeli War, the President …
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… “It would be hard to exaggerate the blows to American self-confidence suffered over the dozen years between [John] … and Martin Luther King, the Vietnam failure, the energy crisis, the supposed amorality of [Henry] Kissinger’s foreign … anyway. Piled on top of these troubles was the hostage crisis, which Carter ruefully helped set in motion by …
Although Americans did not reelect him, he's long been rated as one of the nation's most admired figures
Presidential Speeches
… I am deeply impressed with the necessity of meeting the crisis with a vigor and decision which it imperatively … to recommend the course which necessity exacts by the confidence which I have in its complete success. The … be to produce with the capitalist a feeling of entire confidence, by a tender of that sort of security which in all …