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| Bill Clinton Project… Real. What do you think gave the U.S. administration more confidence in this one? Cardoso I think because the people … composed of immigrants, and in spite of that we have confidence in ourselves. We are not afraid that we will be …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… it was being viewed within the White House? Was there a confidence in that or was there a sort of dismissive attitude … I didn't know. I said, "I don't know, but I have a lot of confidence in the judgment of the good people who are deeply … was a--I don't want to say slow-moving, but not a dramatic crisis that had just been rolling along for a number of …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… relations with the European Union; the 1990 Lithuanian crisis; U.S. relations with Germany; his relationship with … of breaking events. It's the chief message center. It's crisis management center of the NSC. It, of course, bonds to … this is still being refined. Panama's early on and the crisis around Panama develops in the May time frame through …
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| Bill Clinton Project… in the ordinary business of government. It might be in a crisis, but not in the day-to-day business of government. … practical issues. So we dealt with the global economic crisis, which, if you remember, started I think in Thailand … people that he should be doing this. Strong Was he more confident that air power was going to succeed or was he …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… life, legally and otherwise. If he hadn’t had a sense of confidence in both my instincts and the fact that I would … what they were doing anyway. So it wasn’t as if it was a crisis of confidence, what will they think of us, or anything like …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… drugs; Social Security reform; the 2008 financial crisis; the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP); the automotive industry crisis; and the 2008 Presidential transition. … We want to make sure we leave ample time for the financial crisis. We’re not in trouble for time, but let me go through …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… It was so refreshing to find somebody who was that confident of professionals and let you do what you thought … interfered with our game plan, namely the Iranian hostage crisis. In the campaign I was involved with doing all the … good luck. It was wonderful at the beginning to have that confidence. I did have that. One of the things the President …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… White House personnel; judicial nominations; the financial crisis; and President Bush’s personality. … so it was quite a memorable and important first small crisis of his Presidency. We happened to be in the room when … product]. Of course it spiked radically with the bank crisis. Nelson I guess it was after the midterm that Strom …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… Secretary of Defense … Richard Cheney provides descriptions of his service as Secretary of Defense, particularly during the U.S. invasion of Panama and the 1991 Gulf War. … out and design a President to be Commander in Chief in a crisis like Desert Storm, you couldn’t do any better than …
Presidential Speeches
… very difficult days at the United Nations during the Cuban crisis, a public servant of so many years, asks or invites … those who are now here that the need is endless, and I am confident that you will respond. Robert Frost said: Two roads …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… when the agency wasn’t working. It was coming off after crisis, the generic drug scandals. The agency was viewed as … more important that they found somebody in whom they had confidence, yes, someone their staffs told them they could have confidence in. They told the White House they were going to …
Presidential Speeches
… exceptional than ever before. I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a … of America. As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust. For many years, a radical and corrupt … Thank you. National unity is now returning to America, and confidence and pride is soaring like never before. In …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… techniques; Guantanamo Bay detainees; 2008 financial crisis; the 2008 Presidential transition; the Foreign … of a company was something that might shake investor confidence, so they never used the pronoun. Her name was … you had in the administration’s dealings with the economic crisis. Did you have any discussions with [Henry] Paulson or …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… in that phase. The second phase was a phase of national crisis with the Iranian hostage situation. It lasted about … nor thought about in the White House. We almost back into crisis patterns, and it could be done, I think, more … only one person in whom the President had sufficient confidence, and who was the only person within the White …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Foreign Policy Adviser to Edward Kennedy; Founder of US-Ireland Alliance … because I started out as a junior staffer, just out of graduate school. I’m from Pennsylvania. I went to the … Now there’s another hiccup—the current world economic crisis—but until recently, a lot of people were going back. …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… his involvement with policy and events (hostage crisis, SALT II, Billy Carter), and his working relationship … it. A good example to illustrate it is the hostage crisis, which occurred almost within a month after I got … you’ve got to tread carefully and you’ve got to win the confidence of different people and not step on anybody’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… in, but he very quickly began to develop quite a lot of confidence in him. He saw Dennis as the main person. I think … didn’t get along fine, but there wasn’t the same sense of confidence and of wanting to have him around. I think there … we saw everything that he gave him. It created a lot of confidence that we could have significant policy …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… affair, after a year in the Presidency, he lost his self-confidence, which was an immensely important change, but … Presidency. Only in that sense. Jones And so that’s a self-confidence comment, too. Schlesinger The self-confidence is … Service, and so forth. He came into Washington immensely confident of his own abilities with the idea that a good …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… but the need for ways to react to the Watergate crisis and what implications that had in terms of ethics and … nominally my superior. Our relationship was such, and his confidence in me was such, that I really had carte blanche in … this was the only thing he was doing. We had a natural gas crisis that winter. Jim had to develop legislation for that. …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… to know an unusual person. He was a person who exuded more confidence and consequence than anybody I had ever known. It … looked like every time I went up there, they would start a crisis. I walked in there one day and walked right into the … about Bert wanting to be Secretary of the Treasury. I had confidence in Bert. I assumed he was rich. He acted like a …