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Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… A and B. Young The reason I’m asking this is that in past administrations you had a clearly packaged legislative … Congress than the one we might have had in the past. That may be part also of Dick Fenno’s question. How did … on this. Can’t we just put it off? It only rose 14% this past year. Once the bill was off, hospital costs took off …
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… of paper and redesign the NSC staff and process. Over the past two administrations, the NSC staff grew to be larger … to cope with the complexity and speed of international events and the compressed timelines for response. The next …
The next commander in chief will have to contend with a more intangible though quite serious problem: growing uncertainty about the nature of U.S. global leadership going forward.
Public Events
… Is there anything from those and other moments in our past, that could help us understand America today, and what … being asked to draw parallels between the present and the past, but today, we have two eminent American historians; … Lincoln’s first year, but in the lead-up to these terrible events, when things went off the rails and maybe might not …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… have time to look at them; just give them to him.” In the past, he would always check them out, so you knew you had a … to working with, and grown “comfortable” with over the past 50 years. Nelson Backing up just a little bit, you’ve … talking to us on our wavelength, and we just went right past each other. They s ultimately put it to a vote of …
Presidential Speeches
… to make a start. Free people of Berlin: Today, as in the past, the United States stands for the strict observance and … be honored to sponsor summer youth exchanges, cultural events, and other programs for young Berliners from the East. … of Korea—South Korea—has offered to permit certain events of the 1988 Olympics to take place in the North. …
Presidential Speeches
… is recognized by the Spanish Government. Within a few days past the orders of General Weyler have been revoked; the … at least until the lapse of time or the course of events shall have proved beyond cavil or dispute the ability … pointed out have been strikingly illustrated by a tragic event which has deeply and justly moved the American people. …
Presidential Speeches
… friends not only with me but even with each other. In any event, I am very glad to be here and as a new member of the … are not our problems. Their age is not our age. As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an … solution of hard and complicated facts. It is not new that past debates should obscure present realities. But the damage …
Presidential Speeches
… that will surely come with the natural progress of events. It may not be improper here to say that it should be … or even exceeding, in weight a gold coinage which at some past time had been commercially equal to the legal-tender … and depredations. It is earnestly to be hoped that events may prove these assurances to be well rounded. The …
Presidential Speeches
… result showed that we were not wrong in supposing that an event by which the two Governments were made to approach each … French minister to give the most ample explanations of the past and the strongest assurances for the future. After a … be left hereafter to its own resources and means. Events have satisfied my mind, and I think the minds of the …
Public Events
… and scholarship to the urgent issues today. It’s about our past, present, and future. Your host: Pulitzer Prize-winning … least some of the time. BLACKMON: We’ve all seen over the past decade—and certainly over the past year—how … a one-off and goes away and doesn’t really change events on the ground. That’s going to be a really interesting …
Presidential Speeches
… we were too strong. We can get into a war by letting events get out of hand, as they have in the last 3?? years … in preserving the peace requires that we control the events and try to intercept before they become a crisis. But … security, and we'll continue to do as we've done in the past. I might also add that there are decisions that are made …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… to Bill and got assurances that all of that was in the past. Our judgment—and I remember talking to Al about this … conference, or was this pretty much a sweetness-and-light event? Kamarck : I don’t think we knew yet. I don’t think you … it in Tennessee. Every time, no matter how obscure the event that Tipper did with some gay group, we would be …
Presidential Speeches
… Chamber last year as a newcomer to Washington, critical of past policies which I believed had failed, I proposed a new … different from the artificial quick fixes of the past. It calls for a reduction of the rate of increase in … "business as usual" with the forces of oppression. If the events in Poland continue to deteriorate, further measures …
Presidential Speeches
… neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed … facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his … each of the principal areas of crisis--the tide of events has been running out and time has not been our friend. …
Presidential Speeches
… by law in Eastern countries to adjudicate the cases in the event that this should not be objected to by the local … cash receipts from the sales of public lands during the past year have exceeded the expenses of our land system only … better defined and more distinct now, and the progress of events is plainly in the right direction. The insurgents …
Presidential Speeches
… Louisiana, on which I was, anchored off Colon about half past two on Wednesday afternoon, November 14. I came aboard her, after my stay on shore, at about half past 9 on Saturday evening, November 17. On Wednesday … spot in which most work will have to be done in any event. We watched the different steam shovels working; we saw …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… happened for months. Then we had a totally accidental event. Wilbur Mills, who was chairman of the Ways and Means … in a while you got dressed up and went to some ceremonial event. It was absolutely exhausting. The meetings would go … evening. Then the President usually had to go to some event. My main memory is being very hungry, because they …
Presidential Speeches
… might say, disarmingly simple. Unlike treaties in the past, it didn't simply codify the status quo or a new arms … will hand down their verdict on the importance of the event which we are about to witness. But I will venture to …
Presidential Speeches
… of that Republic, will not desire that in the unfortunate event of any revolt against his authority the policy of this … rescinded or suitably relaxed. On the 16th of October an event occurred in Valparaiso so serious and tragic in its … faith of Spain was pledged. I have had reason within the past year very strongly to protest against the failure to …
Public Events
… some of the issues that many found so divisive over the past year. Our guest in this episode is an extraordinary … past, you talked about this as a truly, ah, ah, milestone event in American political history, but also warned that …