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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with Senator Brooke the first week of January 1973. Interestingly, my relationship with the Kennedy office began … contact with the House Judiciary Committee staff. In fact, Linda Chavez, who has become an ultraconservative, was … they needed in their hometowns. Martin You said something interesting. You talked earlier about placing Kennedy in the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… begin anywhere you want, but—if you’re agreeable—we’re interested in how you spent the time after your brother’s … dollar a year. That was great—I thought it was enormously interesting. I was very excited about it and got into it very … on the basis of those trips we took, he had enormous interest in the Chilean situation and Argentina, even though …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… there were two main subjects, broad topics, in which we’re interested. One was Reagan, the President, the politician, … throughout his active political career and so he has an interesting window on Ronald Reagan. The second thing we’re … States during that campaign. I attributed that to the fact that he’d been in the FHA [Federal Housing Authority] in …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… is another question that deserves analysis. But the fact of the matter is that we made judgments and began … below the President who is visibly in charge. It will be interesting to see how Mr. Meese and Mr. Baker divide … a previous policy vacuum. Nobody had really even been interested in it or paid much attention to it. We thought …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… opposition to the war, and I often regretted that. It’s interesting that it’s stuck with me ever since. I think we … of that time was not only in U.S. national security interest, as one of the two great powers, to stop the spread … was admired and respected for his command of figures and facts. That assurance and certitude, that’s what took him …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy sometimes mentions this but he gets the facts wrong. Senator Kennedy often says that my father was … Kenny. So I wrote the letter to Kenny as an expression of interest. I said if he ever comes back and does run for … might, in any way, dilute John Kennedy’s strengths, interests, advantages, Kenny would question. As a result, I …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… whole story. Riley Okay, good. Reed Well, Bill Clinton’s interest in welfare reform goes back much further than my own … everybody in the campaign liked it. As I recall, I wrote a fact sheet for the speech. We went on to finish writing the … a year later. The Moynihan relationship is complicated and interesting. After the election, I was helping to run the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… out so they could just reminisce. There is another interesting part of the story, not related particularly to … does it— Kirk I think you answered to some degree by the fact that his father was the team captain or coach, saying, … that was probably referring to that and his real gift and interest in people. Kirk Personality. Young Yes, and now you …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… tell us a little bit about your background, how you became interested in Asia, and how you developed your expertise in … do it." That's how I ended up in the State Department. Interesting things transpired between the time I was hired …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… think it would be useful to tackle those one at a time, as interesting subjects for which to get two different frames of … wasn't an uncomfortable relationship. I actually think the fact that we were able to do that in the second term was … I just ask about what the President wanted? Was he more interested in having the National Security apparatus present …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… in order and send it back to Houston. It was a very, very interesting period. When we first started traveling nobody … was Tuesday and it was called very early. As a matter of fact, they don't even call them that early anymore. It was … as I recall it, the states where they'd be particularly interested in going, which just happened to be Ohio, …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… on Saddam [Hussein], and long before 9/11 we were—In fact, I didn't get a sense that anybody wanted to immediately … Security Council. Now, this is where it started getting interesting. The Vice President's office and the Defense … Iraq policy. On this one, the Justice Department was less interested. The War on Terrorism issues that we have talked …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… trying and settling those cases—mainly in the Midwest, interestingly enough. So I think I’ve had experience in … time. I mean, we did find out early on that he had a major interest in civil rights. Knott You did? Taylor Yes. But I … election, and those were not prescient remarks. It was an interesting experience. It’s a good question—it’s a curious …
Presidential Speeches
… one more compatible with our values and congenial to our interest, is to emerge. But even more, we must lead. … by ourselves to each and every outrage of violence. The fact that America can act does not mean that it must. A nation's sense of idealism need not be at odds with its interests, nor does principle displace prudence. No, the …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… in effect, with either side in the Iran-Iraq conflict. In fact, we had paid a terrible price when we had done it. Those … and we wanted it presented whole. Anybody who has the interest to read Foreign Affairs was probably going to have … ever blowing it off, because it’s serious stuff. And it interested him. But the passion was about domestic policy and …
Presidential Speeches
… I am disposed to regard, as I am bound to treat, them as facts which can not now be undone, and as deeply interesting to us all, and equally imposing upon all the most … a specific fund, ample in magnitude to the payment of his interest and ultimate reimbursement of his principal. Such is …
Presidential Speeches
… put in serious peril not only the large and preponderating interests of the United States in the islands, but all … of all business interests. The influence and interest of the United States in the islands must be … the treaty will put the Senate in possession of all the facts known to the Executive. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for whom I knew the most, revered the most, and was most interested. I don’t think I engaged with Senator Kennedy or … right and perhaps run for President himself.) It was an interesting group of healthcare leaders. It was the crème de … vote that it wasn’t a mandate for support in any way. Interestingly, we were then kicked out of that room. The …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… to talk to people and you don’t want to be too full of facts. You want to know where you’re going and you want to … too, so everyone had just sort of fallen in line. The fact that Gore was there was very helpful in many ways, in … We would have tried to keep expectations in line but the fact that—if I actually did say we were going to lose 20 …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… We had the hearings in the Peace Palace. It was quite an interesting event, it really was. Perry Was there any talk in … they deserve to have agendas, but if you're trying to do fact-finding it doesn't do much good. Riley Were you involved …