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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 …
Presidential Speeches
… that we have done is really our own security. At times of crisis—before asking Americans to fight and die to resist … it shall be our policy to continue to seek negotiations—confident that reason will some day prevail; that Hanoi will …
Presidential Biographies
… After noting the severity of the nation's economic crisis, Reagan declared that "government is not the solution … ride on our back." Reagan also promised to restore public confidence. Solving the nation's problems required "our best … budget for the coming year by $41 billion. He and his team confidently predicted that these actions would stimulate …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… hearings we had in the subcommittee was on the energy crisis in New England. We did a hearing in Boston on natural … you could just see the Senator never had a high level of confidence in this fellow. He was never told when to go. He … is common is that Kennedy left the Judiciary Committee confident that Biden would do a good job with it. Susman That …
Presidential Biographies
… and restore economic competition. With a Presbyterian's confidence that God was guiding his course, Wilson pursued … incapacitated, prompting an unprecedented constitutional crisis over presidential disability. Wilson became an …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Riley This is the Stan Greenberg Oral History, as a part of the Clinton Presidential History Project. First, let me … and cheered what he was saying, which gave us the confidence to go ahead on all our themes and not worry that … have to ask Bruce to recollect, but it was a momentary crisis in the campaign that I had gone ahead, and that I …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Director of Operations for United States Central Command (CENTCOM); Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Assistant to the President and Deputy National … the Bush administration; the Iraq War troop surge; role of Deputy National Security Advisor; his relationship with …
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… to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and … which an unworthy man will receive that mark of the public confidence which is required to designate the president of … fellow citizens, I own that I am not afraid to place my confidence in him; especially when I know he is impeachable …
For Americans debating the Constitution, impeachment was a critical issue. Here is some of what they said before, during and after ratification
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… but we do hope that you'll tell it like it was in the confidence that you can embargo anything or put time … is. He's a great believer in delegating. He said, "I have confidence in you. I know you'll do a good job. We're going … stub my toe too bad. All those things gave them growing confidence, I think, in my ability to do my job, because I …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… some two decades of time we've never had a breach of our confidences, so we want you to speak candidly to the record. … across multiple candidates and at a level of chutzpah or confidence that you know some consultants have and some … his— Riley Yes. Bartlett So many books. My first kind of crisis communication was when he shot the wrong bird. I was …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… that we have an unblemished record of maintaining those confidences. We had a more extended conversation about this …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… election. It happened to be just as the Cuban Missile Crisis was ending, but they weren’t sure it was ending, and … of October 1963, which was the week of the Cuban Missile Crisis and before the Chamber of Commerce incident. The day … been dispatched just after the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. There was an exchange of letters between JFK and …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… the Americans with Disabilities Act, the savings and loan crisis, and the end of the Cold War. … They are based on what the President chooses to be the confidant relationship between President and Chief of Staff. … by virtue of historic stalemate or by virtue of crisis—the agenda for each session that we thought the …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… us all to hold this interview, what’s said here, in confidence. The transcripts go to Chase and when they do he … so he would continue in that role. He said he had confidence in both of us to do this and it is necessary for … in which people would be able to continue with our full confidence, because we came out of the same administration …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… As time went on I simply, particularly in times of crisis, didn’t have time to take all her calls. With her okay … Clark: No. Needless to say, that was speculated, but I’m confident there was no change in the man’s outlook or … 300 million enslaved people behind the walls. His total confidence that the wall, the Berlin Wall, the Iron Curtain, …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… Zbigniew Brzezinski joins three of his top aides – legislative liaison Madeleine Albright, … National Security Council and the foreign policy apparatus of the Carter administration. The interview begins with only the three aides present, each of whom talks about how they joined the Carter administration …
Presidential Recordings
… to resolve problems -Resolution of problems through crisis -Walter Lippman’s view -Elective process -Winston … Michigan -Governorship Fundamental issues in US -Lack of confidence in government -Revenue sharing -State governments … present system -Abuse of private power -Cities -Lack of confidence in government -Revenue sharing Romney’s …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Affairs, stem cells, immigration reform, the financial crisis, and the ongoing Iraq War and the Global War on Terror. … That’s how I develop original positions I can have confidence in. I’ll tell you a funny story about going to the … people and learn a lot. Then AEI had its financial crisis. People don’t realize that AEI almost collapsed. It …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… relationship with foreign leaders; 2008 Georgia crisis; nuclear weapons; the War in Afghanistan; his … Union grounded in the perception of their growing economic crisis. The reason Nixon felt that they could be pressured … Presidents. It is these guys who have enough self-confidence to admit that they don’t have all the answers and …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… about refugees. He had been heavily involved in the Biafra crisis and Bangladesh, when it was going from East Pakistan …