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Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… I certainly don't want this to be depressing. Most of what we want to talk about is the Secretary of State period, … Bellinger This was a painful period. Riley Good, that's my job, to refresh, to use your language, the pain. Bellinger …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Maine and traveling around Maine with him. I did a lot of what you would think of now as the political stuff, also some … noon, as you know, the Senators from each party meet in what’s called a caucus luncheon, and so my first contact with …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… the administration in 2001, probably with some emphasis on what happens in this building since this is a homecoming of … 9/11 and it continued afterward. As I grew more into the job I became more assertive in defending both the NSC and the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… visa comes and he comes on board with this, well that’s what he’s doing, and so Kennedy’s doing, and he did not try … argument why a democratic solution would not be a con job, as some of the IRA leaders would have maintained or …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… at everything that we needed to do to get better at what we were trying to do--which was to end British rule in … person for me to meet. I like to think that Chuck was what's best about America. He was just modest, down-to-earth, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… were both in law school here, did you have a sense as to what his reputation was? Weicker No, not really. After I … And he said, If you’re asking me, it is. I said, What’s the cost going to be? About $46 million for the …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… We were talking about national unity in the light of what the Republicans and Gingrich were doing. Discussed the … that week. Riley This was before you took the White House job? Blumenthal Yes. He was elected on May 1, 1997. I was …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… were said in the earlier interview and also discussing what might be added to that in this session. It’s not long … you’ve got to come back here and learn something about what’s going on here. I told him I agreed with him and he …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of Kennedy when you first came to the Senate. With that, what issues did you work on closely with him and on what … way out on the left and I wasn’t way out on the right, so what’s the something? That was really terrific. It was a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… right at the beginning with your consciousness of Ireland, what you saw of it, what you saw of the Irish and Americans, … bed at 1:00 in the morning to tell him he was doing a good job. But that was basically for domestic political purposes. …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… of the archives and is the only one who is translating what I recorded when I was President. She makes the … when I was appointed Foreign Minister it was my first job in government. My career was inside universities, as you …
Presidential Biographies
… President Obama entered the 2012 election year with job approval ratings that were dangerously low (roughly 40 …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in ’94 to ’97 with John Bruton. Without exception— Young What is the name? Knott Foreign Minister Ahern. We don’t know … stage, a member of the Cabinet said, “Garret, I’d tell you what’s happening in the Cabinet but only if you promise to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Bridges program, the Kennedy–Lugar initiative? Tell us what that is and how it came about. Waxman Cultural Bridges … denied—and a sense that if you really want to know what’s going on in a country, you need to talk to the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… on, made a decision in my own career to divert away from what I was doing, with just classic immunology and infectious … getting ready to come home and figured I’m going to have a job or I’m not going to have a job. As it turned out, the cry …
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… conversations he had recorded. Often “he wanted to know what he said, right after he said it.” [38] Either the … He used them “to refresh his memory and find out exactly what was said.” [43] When speaking with the same individual … installed a cheaper system that was "adequate" for the job, while keeping costs down. [89] Johnson's Reasons for …
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… THE COSTS OF DELAY The president-elect moves forward, but what are the risks of continued conflict about the results of … receiving from Johnson personnel. And Johnson told Nixon what he had earlier said to Reverend Billy Graham and Nixon … they can hit the ground running and not have to figure out what the threats are and what the capabilities to respond …
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Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… and so became a self-taught engineer and applied for a job at a company called American Instrument Company in … it was Communist-aligned and they were worried about what impact that would have. That kind of politics played …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Young The timeline we gave you showed you simply what we know from the outside. It’s what we can pick up, what … it.Anyway, that was a concept I don’t know,frankly, what’s happened to the Teacher Corps idea. Young Well, I …
Presidential Speeches
… I tried to convey to the great mass of American people what the banking crisis meant to them in their daily lives. … the Pacific. But the width of those (these) oceans is not what it was in the days of clipper ships. At one point … if we discard the notion of "business as usual." This job cannot be done merely by superimposing on the existing …