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… deployed shortly afterward as a Navy pilot in the Pacific; he chose to paint his beloved Barbara’s name on the side of … lessons. He wrote in A Charge to Keep : “I learned how to manage, how to set clear goals and work with people to … George W. Bush: Life Before the Presidency …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Riley First, let me say how much we appreciate your devoting your time to this … what academic careers are like. I was 29, untenured. So I did it basically from May to September and then on a very … that we were trying to produce something comparable to the President’s economic report with a staff of three—in just …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; National Security … with a name. Jeff is also serving as a note taker today. He’s basically recording interventions and will be taking … John Kennedy, and the prevailing sentiment for Vice President Nixon. I remember watching the debates and the …
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| George W. Bush Project… Hurricane Katrina; becoming White House Chief of Staff and how he operated differently than Andy Card; the Iraq War; … Robert Gates; and the role of the Office of the Vice President … same time Mike Gerson had had a conversation with me about how he thought there was much more that could be done, and …
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| George W. Bush Project… W. Bush White House; George W. Bush’s decision to run for president and being considered for a role in the campaign; … the personnel in the White House; the role of the Vice President; and setting up policy priorities … exactly where, to watch the funeral procession for President Kennedy in 1963. So that was-- Perry You were about …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Adelman begins by touching briefly on his service in President Nixon’s Office of Economic Opportunity and … is dedicated to Adelman’s time as ACDA Director, where he details the major events of his tenure, from his difficult … and January 20 th that absolutely have to be decided? The President isn’t really anxious to decide anything during that …
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| Bill Clinton Project… with Bill Clinton and his first impressions of him. He talks about comparing the political systems of the two … I've had an opportunity—Kim, I can't remember whether he had written before, but Cardoso and Havel had, and you get …
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| Bill Clinton Project… subject this morning, and ask you—I’m not sure exactly how to frame a question, other than maybe to get you to tell … the other. Lake Well, I don’t know about pressure. But it did seem clear to us that was one area where we had a … before the Inaugural, Clinton had slightly misspoken, as he acknowledged, in saying—I don’t have this exactly …
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| Bill Clinton Project… names, so if you see him scribbling a lot, that’s what he’s up to. So I’ll begin. I’m Russell Riley, I’m an … store. My father’s parents came to St. Paul. Riley Where did they emigrate from? Edelman Some place in what would now …
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| Bill Clinton Project… grandparent saying that [Harry S.] Truman had been a good President. And I remember cutting out a picture of [Dwight] … was Democrats. I didn’t know any Republicans. I truly did not know there were Jewish Republicans and I’m still … than at the time. My father didn’t have a college degree. He worked at Westinghouse and he tried to open a grocery …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… about the ’88 campaign–and its relation to the Bush presidency, particularly your role in it. Baker I would begin … tooteth, is that right? Well that was the election that President Bush, Vice President Bush, won to make him … the terms, and they’ve been able to acquire power over how the debates go, how many there are, when they take place …
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| Bill Clinton Project… you close the book and put it down and that’s it. That’s how people read books in Washington. Nobody has ever read a … You notice I read the Washington Post every day. I never did that before, but I do that now because it’s a good paper … lie about sex. Then of course resulting in the impeachment—he was impeached, not convicted, and that had profound …
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| Bill Clinton Project… so, very closely. I’d known Cutler for a long time because he’d been associated with the Center for Law and Social … administration, Joe Onek, who was deputy counsel to the President, had been the director of the Center for Law and …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Secretary of Defense … of his 25-year career as a Foreign Service Officer, where he recounts his job at the U.S. Embassy in Congo. The … interpreter hasn’t shown up. Go up and interpret for the President, please. So I went up. Instead of turning to …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Deputy Assistant to the President for Policy Planning … and serving as director of policy during the transition. He views the George H. W. Bush presidency through the lens of his self-styled Reagan … didn’t make any impression on me. Late 70s, running for President, mortal rival to George Bush, and we spent all our …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Secretary of the … Sacramento as Cabinet Secretary and Executive Secretary. He touches briefly on the 1976 and 1980 campaigns, then … and balancing as a good steward must do, as he did as President. Knott: This was also a time of a lot of student …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… of ideas—to give their perspective on the Ronald Reagan Presidency, and on their time in power. Most of the views of the President and of the Presidency are judgments from the … the record for the benefit of people not yet born. One is how this administration and this Presidency got formed, got …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… Assistant to the President for Political Affairs … his subsequent role as Press Secretary in the Sacramento. He touches briefly on Reagan's aborted 1968 presidential run … into the 1976 campaign and his challenge to incumbent President Gerald Ford. As a top aide, Nofziger describes the …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… then as Director of Speechwriting from 1981 to 1982. He details the process of managing the speechwriting effort … and credits Reagan with being the greatest public speaker he's ever encountered in politics. … the Republican National Committee [RNC], which meant that he had to have a second staff because if you’re a Senator and …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore … House and attempting to "reinvent government" with Vice President Gore, finishing with her perspectives on Al Gore's … should come out, given the fact that his son is still President. It is merely a courtesy to the people who …