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| George H. W. Bush Project

… case, we looked at what issues had come up in his earlier campaigns. I don’t know how the decision was reached. Meador … conservative. Teeter had been involved in some of his campaigns and probably thought a lot of him. Although people … good at governing, but are not necessarily good at running campaigns. In ’s case, they were good at running campaigns, …

| George H. W. Bush Project

Bobbie Greene Kilberg Oral History

… where Gregg came from. And then Gregg was Bush’s Colorado campaign finance chair. He came shortly after we started the … is. And in 1989, 1990, the President started talking about campaign finance reform. There may have been some cursory … and where that line was and what you could do. Could you campaign in churches? What was the limit of that? What was …

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… Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, Jr. -Funds for defendants -Campaign workers -Kalmbach -Funds for defendants -Maurice N. Stars -Participants -Compared to Edward M. Kennedy’s staff -Archibald Cox [?] -Effect on Woods’ schedule …

| George W. Bush Project

Clay Johnson Oral History

… with the President about being his policy guy for the campaign, and then the Governor was going to take him to a … I said, “Who’s in charge of quality control here in this campaign? There’s nobody in charge of quality control.” A senior campaign person said, “Well, nobody is, officially.” I said, …

Ronald Reagan: Life Before the Presidency

… followers. He told the story so often in his presidential campaigns that reporters accompanying him gave Reagan the … as he had done in the 1940s. He continued in the 1950s to campaign for Democratic candidates, including the liberal … returned to the party fold and supported John F. Kennedy, Reagan championed the candidacy of Republican …

| Jimmy Carter Project

James Schlesinger Oral History

… on a wave of reform, after the period of Watergate. He had campaigned against Washington, its wicked ways, and he had … least in my experience, more inclined to focus back on the campaign of 1976, which was the high point of their lives, … booster I had been, because I wasn’t involved in Scoop’s campaigns. I think that politicians are enormously important …

Presidential oral history: '43: George W. Bush'

… depicted his approach to the job in his 2000 presidential campaign betrayed a relatively modest conception of his aims … Democratic leader to help sell his plan: Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Their partnership was indispensable … would follow up its earliest initiatives with a “national campaign…to get people to be nicer” to one another. A major …

George W. Bush, as a post-Cold War president, came to office with modest aims.

What history can teach an unprecedented president-elect

… much of a role in my election. There wasn’t that tie of campaign interrelationship that ordinarily would have … working with Democrats such as George Miller and Ted Kennedy to pass No Child Left Behind. Bolten sees, in … in 2001. As Bolten recounted, “We were blessed to have a campaign staff that was itself ready to move into governance. …

The director of the Miller Center reflects on the next presidency

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… -Stanton -Leonard Wrench -Cox Broadcasting -John F. Kennedy -Connally -O'Neill -Daily News -Lewis -Stanton … -Stanton -Charles W. Colson -Kendall -Pogue, Keogh 1972 campaign contributions -Business Council -Kendall -McGovern …

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… -George S. McGovern -Hubert H. Humphrey -Nebraska campaign … Chase Smith -George C. Wallace statement -Edward M. Kennedy statement -Democrats 7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS … with Cuban missile crisis -Republican support for John F. Kennedy -Confrontation with Soviets -Democrats -Strategy …

| George H. W. Bush Project

Robert M. Gates Oral History

… on. And one of his firebrands, I think it was young Joe Kennedy from Massachusetts started hammering me on BNL, and … and seek declassification of all documents related to the Kennedy assassination knowing the interest of the public in … for years the Agency had taken it on the chin about the Kennedy thing and we fed the conspiratorially minded by …

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… Conv. No. 622-15 (cont.) Pending tax bill -Presidential campaign federal funding -Forthcoming vote -Clark MacGregor's … Pay Board reaction The President's schedule -John F. Kennedy's grave Kennedy -Assassination -Edward M. Kennedy …

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… Vietnam -Reagan -Support for the President -Telegram campaign -Blockade -Melvin R. Laird -Television appearance … -Support Democrats -President's support for John F. Kennedy in 1962 Cuban missile crisis -Effect on President's gubernatorial campaign -Rockefeller -Criticism -Reasons -Duration -Success …

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… of resolution by National League of Families -Edward M. Kennedy -Future handling -Campaign Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after …

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… Hale Boggs Ehrlichman -View of Congress’ mood Edward M. Kennedy speech -Tone -Vietnam -Nguyen Van Thieu -1972 … Democrats' attacks on the President -Edward Kennedy's Vietnam speech -Tone -Hughes loan issue -Edward Kennedy -Chappaquiddick -Effect -1960 campaign -1962 campaign -1962 campaign practices -Attacks …

Supreme Court appointments in the president’s first year

… Justice Bryon White, a Democrat nominated by John F. Kennedy, left when Democrat Bill Clinton took office in … “greats.” Arthur Goldberg, who was appointed by President Kennedy, had not even served three years on the court when … Court’s liberal rulings a prominent issue in the 1968 campaign, promising to name “law and order” justices. The new …

Seven presidents—more than half of those who have served starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt—had the opportunity to nominate a member of the nation’s highest court during their first year in office. But no president in this period had a Supreme Court vacancy waiting for him as he entered the White House, giving him the opportunity to nominate a justice in the first two weeks of his presidency.

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… prediction -Inflammatory rhetoric -Compared with Edward M. Kennedy 5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log … -Assassination attempt -Effect on popularity -Effect on campaign Colson entered at 6:45 pm. -Wallace’s effect on … -Colson’s view -Political leaning -Compared with John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald -Political leanings …

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… W. Reagan -Charles W. Colson -Clark MacGregor -McGovern campaign -$1,000,000 bond -Security at dinner and hotel -Dole … election headquarters staffer [Gordon Luce] -McGovern campaign response -Compared to Watergate -Telephone from … Lyndon B. Johnson -Accomplishments -Successor to John F. Kennedy -Barry M. Goldwater -Majority Leader in Senate …

First Lady: The second hardest job

… first ladyship, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, and Pat Nixon resorted to a more … With the exception of Mrs. Johnson, who extensively campaigned for LBJ and worked on beautifying America as part …

The role of the president's wife has looked different in every family, every administration.

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… -Criticism -President's previous support for John F. Kennedy -Democrats -Hubert H. Humphrey -Edmund S. Muskie -Edward M. Kennedy -George S. McGovern -Cessation -President's offers … -Briscoe -Background -[Forename unknown] Walker media campaign -Effect -Attorney General's race 20 NIXON …