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Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… of Energy and the challenge of passing energy legislation. He begins with some opening comments about his relationship … Washington in 1977. He offers an intimate profile of the President, detailing his operating style (hands-on … President, and then I’ll get down to some of the details. He registered the point with me that to understand the energy …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… recalls the 1988 New Hampshire presidential primary, President Bush’s respect for Ronald Reagan, passage of the … Matthews was going to give the post-election review and he’s stuck someplace. McCall It isn’t post-election yet. … every Chief of Staff’s job is different, depending on the President. It is the President who determines the role of the …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs … campaign and his service in the National Security Council. He then describes his role in the 1976 presidential election, … election. Allen evaluates his tenure as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for the first year of …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… and others in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He discusses the 1993 economic stimulus package; working with … Vienna, Virginia. We fortunately caught him right before he left to move back to Minnesota. Let's start with your …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… musician to his entrance into the entertainment business. He discusses the origins of his relationship with Ronald Reagan in the late-1950s, the close friendship he and his wife Mary Jane established with the Reagan, and … So Ralph and I were looking for opportunities. Of course, he had a lot more money than I did. He had an earlier start …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Senior Advisor to the President; White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy … his start in politics with the College Republicans and how his early adoption of technology transformed his direct mail business into political consulting. He was a consultant to George W. Bush’s campaign for Texas …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… work as legal advisor to the National Security Council. He begins by discussing how he came to join the George W. Bush administration. He discusses his dual-hatted role as both counsel to the President, reporting to the White House Office of Legal … romance, we both fell in love with girls in Virginia. He had a girlfriend who was at Virginia Law School and he …
Presidential Speeches
… President Richard Nixon defends his decision to use American … of American forces and the people of South Vietnam. President Nixon upholds his pledge to bring forces home but … move against enemy sanctuaries will make me a one-term President. No one is more aware than I am of the political …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… were saying that you had looked, last night late, at the President's memoir and Hank Paulson's book. Bolten I knew we … is a very thoughtful and organized guy, despite the way he may sound at times, and because he conscripted the folks …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… toward Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan and how the administration managed these policy debates; the Bush … the European Union; great power dynamics in Eurasia and how the Bush team sought to navigate them; the complex … and the administration’s negotiations with Congress, and President Bush’s vision for U.S.-India relations; and Bush’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… reform goes back much further than my own involvement. He’d been doing it as Governor from just about his first … in welfare offices than anyone else who’d ever sought the Presidency, so he was able to speak about the issue in a way …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… as well as her testimony before the 9/11 Commission. He describes his role as legal advisor to the State … the War on Terror and torture issues, and the ICC. He talks about his work on treaties, writing speeches, giving … Department didn't trust John Negroponte, even though he was quite a hard-nosed, conservative diplomat who was our …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… of a bookend for us. I think the first interview that we did in this project was the one that we did with you and … situationit was the first, really, use of force. A President who was not naturally inclined to hard power became … the United States was instrumental in restoring to the Presidency the first genuinely democratically elected …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… term—to be in the meeting where we recommended to the President that the parade be canceled simply because we were … President was very upset about that, not so much because he wanted to be in a parade, but because all these kids, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of Virginia, not by the Senator, and not by his staff. He came to us to ask us to do this. We’ve done oral histories … one with [Ronald] Reagan—we have now completed our Reagan Presidency Project.George H. W. Bush. Now we’re engaged in a …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… only Brantly Womack, and I guess Evan's not so sure who he is. Evan A. Feigenbaum I'm Evan Feigenbaum. Riley Thank … whatever. So tell us a little bit about your background, how you became interested in Asia, and how you developed your … I could find, all of which went absolutely nowhere. But I did go through a few much more serious Japan phases—studying …
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… irreconcilable differences, of appreciating diversity in how people want to live their own lives, and of recognizing … Milkis and Nicholas Jacobs (Oxford, 2022) By the time he formally declared his candidacy for president, every … irreconcilable differences, of appreciating diversity in how people want to live their own lives, and of recognizing …
While populism cuts a deep current through American political history, so too does its antithesis. Standing in its path is a form of constitutional politics—the practice of persuasion, negotiation, and compromise, the art of acknowledging irreconcilable differences, of appreciating diversity in how people want to live their own lives, and of recognizing the limits to collective action. Populism is vindictive, spurred by the desire to seek revenge on those in power because of a sense of prolonged injustice.
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… President, Sinn Féin Party … Joe Cahill, Pat Treanor, and himself to come to the U.S. He reflects on his trips to America, Clinton’s political abilities, and meeting the president and First Lady Hillary Clinton for the first time. … and they both came out. Bill Clinton, because he became President, came out and said in response to the questions …
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… Listen to President Johnson from March 1968 as he searches for answers before making a surprise announcement … March 13 Richard J. Daley with President Richard Nixon, February 1970 Continuing their … would take charge. Daley: Yeah. President Johnson: He did take charge— Daley: Yes, he did. President Johnson: …
Listen to President Johnson from March 1968 as he searches for answers before making a surprise announcement
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of ’85. You invited him. We’d like to hear from you about how you came to meet Ted Kennedy and how the idea of this … trip from your point of view; what happened, what effect did it have, what impact did it have perhaps within South … him actually forever, you know, and with the kind of name he has, you sometimes think that you’ve known public figures …