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Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… agreement, the Panama Canal treaty, and the Iran hostage crisis. Although not specifically addressed, Carter's … events than was I. I turned to people in whom I had confidence to help me. These included people in … of state, I think, and to ease Sullivan out after the crisis had passed. And I finally deferred to that. Brown and …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… I thought the way he handled the Iranian hostage-taking crisis, the statement he made that we would not use force … of show, and ours I think was very harmful to us. I had no confidence that the ICJ would be objective in dealing with … to panels of the court, where we would be reasonably confident that we would get an objective determination on an …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… a group in London that is very interested in the Falklands crisis. Do you have any recollections on that? Haass Oh yes. … it was grinding so slowly you could hear it. It was not a confidence builder. I remember the dentist looking at me … to build a political context in which people either feel confident they can make compromises, or feel they have no …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… imagined a 9/11-type attack. One of the great questions of crisis management is, what would it take to change your … in coordinating whole-of-government approaches in crisis areas. And my job was to get the stage set for a … a certain extent, but if you’ve ever been in Washington in crisis mode there isn’t a lot of time, even if there is an …
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… however, slights the nation’s peril and constitutional crisis in early 1801, when the incumbent Federalists risked … a president’s primary duty was “to unite in himself the confidence of the whole people .... and point them in a …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… on those commitments, and he didn't do so. Did you lose confidence in him at that time? Are there things you can tell … or some of their organs, described it as the worst crisis since the Suez Crisis. Major refused to take phone …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… job can be small or large, but I pretty much had complete confidence that it would be significant with John. Riley Did … one. We didn't do any of that. It was straight. People had confidence in that after a while. If they hadn't had … comfortable in his own skin; he's an intellectually confident guy. As I said, he likes to look at all sides of …
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… fact—America, in the realm of race, remains embroiled in crisis, controversy, and catastrophe. That need not be the … fact—America, in the realm of race, remains embroiled in crisis, controversy, and catastrophe. That need not be the …
Despite the election of our nation’s first black president—and in some ways, perhaps because of that fact—America, in the realm of race, remains embroiled in crisis, controversy, and catastrophe. That need not be the case, especially if we as a nation, and our new president individually, are willing to learn hard lessons from the Obama era and move forward.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Presidential ambitions and campaign. The Iran hostage crisis is brought up. … that whatever Ted said on the subject of the Cuban Missile Crisis would be interpreted around the world as the policy …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… here. We've got an unblemished record of maintaining those confidences. You'll get a transcript back that will be … They would have called Secretary Powell. I felt very confident being able to do that independently with Condi … whole foreign policy mentality is independent, and we're confident that that independence will remain there." But the …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… that point, and Craig Fuller fit the bill. Craig had the confidence of the Reagan crowd which was, of course, going to … be the case, but at that time, the drug problem was a real crisis. In particular in south Florida there was a crying … If you go back to media accounts, you’ll see that the drug crisis was a was a big national issue. It wasn’t just south …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… else in the administration knew him and I had great confidence in him and knew that he and I would relate well. … Reserve Board, always. Because it promotes a lack of confidence in financial markets and, for that matter, a lack of confidence in the business community, a sense that that …
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… serious problem: growing uncertainty about the nature of U.S. global leadership going forward. … Syria; the rise of an increasingly powerful, capable, and confident China that appears bent on becoming the dominant … Yemen, and Iraq) create the most significant humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II, breathe new life into …
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.
Presidential Recordings
… Court International monetary situation -Devaluation -Next crisis -Fixed rates of exchange Photographs -Chair … outlook -Economists’ views -Credit crunch -Retail sales -Confidence -Rowen -Burns -Uncertainty -International … monetary situation -Reassurances by Shultz -Sense of crisis -Attention -Kissinger -Vietnam -People’s Republic of …
Presidential Biographies
… tried to interest Eisenhower in the Republican nomination, confident that his popularity would carry him to victory and … he was no match for Eisenhower. Eisenhower inspired confidence with his plain talk, reassuring smiles, and heroic … While Eisenhower confronted the dangers of the Suez crisis, Soviet troops invaded Hungary. The Kremlin was …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… relate to interest rates, and all that sort of thing, and confidence and the rest. On the other hand, he’d never been … say, Mr. President, I think we can do this to help promote confidence and confidence will help in this respect, like the Asian crisis or Mexico, whatever. He would ask questions and would …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… appointment, but that’s minor. I think he really had confidence in me. He knew what I was doing and I don’t think … me? But he was worried about civil rights people having no confidence in somebody else he might appoint. I think the … Yes. But it was— [ phone interruption ] Katzenbach …crisis, excuse me, criminal prisoners. Knott Bay of Pigs …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… want me to go to Catholic school but didn’t have a lot of confidence in the local public school system at that time, … take on Bush. I think most people in that room had some confidence in him but realistically thought it was going to … press, dealt with a lot of reporters, and Mark had some confidence in my ability to recognize what a reporter might …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Free Trade Agreement, and insights into the workings of the National Security Council. … is the Samuel Berger oral history interview, which is part of the Clinton Presidential History Project. Let me again say … absolutely dazzling on policy issues. There was a kind of crisis at the end, because I think they set a deadline for …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in changing minds at the White House was nil. Germany How confident were you of the information you were receiving about Vietnam? McGovern Pretty confident. I went to Vietnam three times during the war. I … who was managing the bill, in whom we had a lot of confidence. He said, Well look, guys, this thing doesn’t mean …