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Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… property, not government, and that actually worked. Knott Interesting. Could I ask you a question? We cite in the … directed against your structure? Hayden No, not at all. Interestingly enough, [Mohammed] Atta and several of the … Obama in August of 2009. It was clear to me, and in fact, Newsweek reports this quite explicitly, that the …
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| George W. Bush Project… others’—that as much as I disagreed with him, he had the interests of the country at heart. He wanted to make the … Some in the Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus—this was interesting. The Hispanic Caucus members were more copacetic … Hanging chads to the contrary notwithstanding, the fact remained that he didn’t have the popular vote. Then it …
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| George W. Bush Project… to go to college in Washington because they do have an interest in national politics. Gillespie It chose me. I was … of what they do? Gillespie The nature of what they do, the fact that they're interested in what I'm doing. Right from the start they're …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… happened to it. That will probably be an instructive and interesting story to tell, but we won’t do that today, unless … he became. He knew the arms-control community was very interested in having access to experts around the country who … Yes, and Chayes had been in the State Department. In fact I’ll take a brief detour. There was a great story that …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Baker momentum coming out of a legislative session to the fact that Baker announced for the Presidency. The straw poll … if that helps, I can divert or just keep to the basic facts, whatever you want. Knott I like the vignettes. I think … months to help her set up the government, which was really interesting. I actually enjoyed it. Then I went over to the …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… in American foreign policy and I developed a particular interest in European integration and the postwar period. I … Fowler had been a classmate of mine at St. Albans, and in fact we went all the way back to nursery school together in … lawyer, who has gone back and forth. I had quite a few interesting assignments that were government-related and …
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| Bill Clinton Project… senior officers and not so much among the soldiers. Knott Interesting. General, did you get the sense that it was worse … him very well and still know him today. As a matter of fact, when I was retiring he called me up and said, Why don’t … Powell told me, I want you to be there and represent my interest. That really came to the forefront during the …
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| George W. Bush Project… that there might be some opening or was it simply the fact that watching Assad go through the motions, turning … your business? Crocker I don’t think so. It was interesting on the impeachment. We had and have, of course, a … that the people you are reporting to in Washington are interested in these issues? And to what extent are you …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… city races and all that, and I got very, very involved and interested in politics. I went to the Chicago Daily News … had morning--I digress here-- Riley That's okay, this is interesting. Friedersdorf Franklin College at that … five terms, he was a very popular Congressman and the fact that we'd been redistricted all over the state, we had …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Carlucci That he knew that the three of us had his interests at heart. None of us had ever played any tricks on … reflections? If there’s a marked contrast, that would be interesting. Did Reagan seem different then? Carlucci I don’t … in the Soviet Union, and he was fascinated by that. His interests—Arms control bored him to tears. Bored me to tears …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… go-round, but from then on they were with him. I had an interest myself in seeing a lot of things done that Jimmy … do. At least would disclose if he didn’t know. If he was interested in a subject, he would learn all there was to know … but he didn’t have one. Young This has been a very interesting preliminary. Why don’t we ask some questions …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… force to begin with? Veremkroit Yes. Heininger That’s interesting. How old was he at the time? Veremkroit When we … do that at that age. Veremkroit Right, he was telling very interesting stories to my older son, and he remembered the … to get us on the list, but we found out only after the fact. It was such a happy night. Everybody was calling. They …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… Academy and came back to run the peanut warehouse. He got interested in government down there and was on the school … Sanders still talks about it. He’s a friend of mine. In fact, I play golf with him, and he still talks about how he … is true. He didn’t try to run for the Senate. Young It’s interesting to experiment [inaudible] if he had gone to the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy’s role in the Clinton healthcare? Broder Well, the interesting thing was that it was less of a role than you … the way they promised that they would fund it?” It will be interesting to see, because it comes up for renewal next … Well, it was. My own view is that Bush was seriously interested in fostering bipartisanship in the Senate and with …
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| Bill Clinton Project… on that for a second? Because one of the things that we’re interested in is how a political agenda develops. Especially, … the transition was rocky. We probably didn’t have all the facts or the information about what was causing it to be as … It’s a miraculous shift and I’m guessing that there is an interesting story there that might tell us something about …
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| Bill Clinton Project… a job as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. I’ve always been interested in public life or public service, and I was able … time. But that was one of the initial manifestations of my interest in public life. Actually, I really should go back … area. It was Columbia. So, we released that. In fact, we put that series in for a Pulitzer Prize. The …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to use it and profit from it, but not really involved and interested in it. A very dramatic shift and change came … the ’60s, ’70s, earlier and certainly continued on. So the facts that were laid out in these legal arguments were just … of Boston, urged people to vote in terms of their broader interest of obeying the courts, and also about calm and …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… my graduate work at Oxford. I told some people that I was interested in working on the Hill and that was the one job … probably closer to a paleoconservative. Knott Oh really? Interesting. Strong Can I ask you something about the years …
Presidential Speeches
… should be rendered replete with efficiency. In view of the fact, well avouched by history, that the tendency of all … custody the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy is in fact the treasurer. A permanent and radical change should … from office and the most condign punishment. The public interest also demands that if any war has existed between the …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Center also. Young Okay. Do you want to start, Fred? We’re interested in [Ronald] Reagan as well as [George H. W.] Bush. … that is fine. I’ll be more than happy to digress. In fact, you may need to get me back on track every now and … I worked in the Presidential Personnel Office, which was interesting because what I got to do, even as a young intern, …