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Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… role as national security advisor in the administration of President Ronald Reagan when George H.W. Bush was serving as … relations with the Soviet Union, and events in Panama. He also talks about relationships within the Bush … about your relationship with George Bush when he was Vice President and you were National Security Advisor, and if you …
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| George W. Bush Project… the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina. She describes how those lessons informed government structures and actions, … was appropriate. Townsend And I am Frances Townsend. I was President George W. Bush's Deputy National Security Advisor … for a position in the 43rd Presidency. But tell us how you got from New York to Washington. How did you move …
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| Bill Clinton Project… at an early age. So I got an awful lot of experience on how to lose campaigns. In those days we did have some Democrats, including Senator Frank Church, who … in Church's Washington office. That was in 1980, the year he was defeated. I pledged to myself that I would never come …
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| George W. Bush Project… Coast ports, Hurricane Katrina, paid medical leave, and how the department is organized and the buildings it … I pass"--you, that is, not Barbara; you can say "until the President passes." So you can make any stipulation you wish. … obviously, sooner rather than later--to have a deed. Chao How many other projects do you have of other Presidents? …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… recalls the 1988 New Hampshire presidential primary, President Bush’s respect for Ronald Reagan, passage of the … or we would certainly like to hear early today about how you came to join George Bush in the administration and … I met George Bush in 1980 when he was running for President against Ronald Reagan. In New Hampshire everybody …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy … in the 1976 presidential campaign and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy from 1977 to 1981. He begins with Carter's entry into the 1976 presidential race … and feelings of loyalty to his administration and to the President. Everything is off the record. In this case, …
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| George W. Bush Project… for Global Democracy Strategy; Special Assistant to the President; Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and … relevant Washington experience before we get to the 43rd Presidency. You weren’t interviewed as a part of the project … took office and I was doing two things then. I was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center [EPPC] in …
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| George W. Bush Project… the interview talking about his earlier political life, how he became treasury secretary, and his relationship with President George W. Bush, Tim Geithner, and Ben Bernanke. … language, but that people could understand, and that was how he said, "Now remember, we're not going to open all the …
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| George W. Bush Project… Deputy Assistant to the President; Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council; Assistant to the President; Director of the USA Freedom Corps … I was in high school I was very active. I ran for vice president of student government as a junior and then …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… under Reagan in both Sacramento and Washington, D.C. He begins with some brief comments about his service as … the major foreign policy issues of the Reagan years, and how Weinberger, Reagan, and the rest of the foreign policy … Weinberger I met President Reagan the first time when he was being talked about as possibly running for Governor. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Washington, D.C. James Sterling Young You were describing how Ted Kennedy has developed over the years. Don Riegle I'll … one before that. Ted has a way of calling on people when he wants them to do something. He wants them to do things at …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Donald Regan in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal. He describes his decision to abandon his 1988 bid for the presidency and join the administration at Reagan's request, … any further, and as a matter of fact, at the moment he called I was having a family conference. I took my family …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… discusses serving as a U.S. Attorney during the Nixon Presidency, as Assistant Attorney General for Gerald Ford’s … who appointed him Attorney General late in his term. He remained in that post for the first two years of the Bush … during the ’80 campaign quite a bit and during the Reagan presidency interacted with him off and on. We’ve never been …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency under Presidents Carter, Reagan and Bush. Webster gives a general … for the first six years of the Reagan administration. He discusses the role of the intelligence services in … in anything you wanted to tell him, but unlike a lot of Presidents, he wasn’t feeding a lot of questions to you. …
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| George W. Bush Project… of being the first Director of National Intelligence; the President’s Daily Brief; the relationship among the National … Security Affairs Department. We teach midlevel officers how national security policy is made in the United States. … when his father was President-elect. I met him at the Vice President’s house. So we had a very brief interview. I mean, …
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| George W. Bush Project… with Congress; stem cell research; energy issues and Vice President Dick Cheney; Bush’s relationship with Cheney; the … through for setting up the priorities of the White House, how you were going to spend your time, the President's time, the whiteboards and so forth, sort of the …
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| Bill Clinton Project… before the William J. Clinton presidential campaign. He was also the communications director for Madeleine … road who will want to come back and understand the Clinton Presidency in a way that you can tell us about that nobody … was President, and rightly or wrongly, many of us thought he was going to blow up the world. I became energized and …
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| Bill Clinton Project… the table today, but it is going to be scholars of the Presidency, of intelligence work, of U.S. foreign policy, who … briefly, and then I’ll say a word about the context of how we came into office. Whenever your opening remarks are … is talking. Dan [McDowell] is here, and you’ll see that he is making notes, but those notes are only as an aid to the …
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| Bill Clinton Project… on Bosnia, which suggests, I believe, that I presented to President Clinton a plan for allowing the Iranians to send … of one of the chapters of Six Nightmares , a book that I did that talks about Haiti, Bosnia and Northern Ireland, and … could read his handwriting, to figure out what it was that he was asking about. Riley Any crucial misinterpretations …
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| Bill Clinton Project… political life and being a Congressman from California, President William J. Clinton's economic team, OMB … Kreisler, you remember that? Panetta Yes, yes. Gilmour He did one of me too, it was fun. Panetta I think I was up … the job as Chief of Staff, I said that I would take the President through the reelection but then I wanted to come …