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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… first working for INS [International News Service] in New York and then for Reuters. In those days, I’d become very … who really worked for national health insurance. Theodore Roosevelt, in 1912, when he was running on the Bull Moose …
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… On June 17, 1912, the celebrated ex-President Theodore Roosevelt delivered a dramatic speech that that encouraged … TR bolted the Republican Convention and summoned a new party to “stand at Armageddon" and “battle for the Lord.” … changes in American politics owes, above all, to Roosevelt’s Progressive party campaign. The party was joined …
One hundred years ago this week, a dramatic Republican National Convention prepared the ground for the transformation of American democracy.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for quite a number of years. That clearly was a whole new venue; namely, the legislative process not from the … burden than the average United States Senator has to deal with. So he came to that job as subcommittee chairman …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… University of Virginia Nancy Kassop, State University of New York at New Paltz John Dinan, Wake Forest University … political science department at the State University of New York in New Paltz. I teach courses on the Presidency and … pretty well. I always like to say you get to see how they deal with successes and failures. You get to know what kind …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… (TARP), and the 2008 election. He also recalls issues dealing with banks, including regulation. Paulson talks about … every conversation I had, was on the front page of the New York Times or Washington Post. Then, when I was there a … Security Advisor and Chuck Colson was responsible for dealing with outside interest groups. And he said, "Well, the …
Presidential Recordings
… STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/08) -Restrictions -New formula for determining funds -Preparation of bill … subsidies -Federal subsidies -Faculty members -Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration -Opposition to the President -Boon …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… was organized and the policy issues immediately facing the new economic team (1978 amended budget, 1979 budget, … the first week of the transition period, we worked out a deal with HEW [Health, Education, and Welfare] offices. Then we moved over to the OMB and began to work out of the new Executive Office Building. During that period of time, we …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… summary of the tax laws. He explained how a great deal of the tax breaks and tax incentives functioned very … economic issue that was driving this. I think it was the new direction that resulted from the work of Stanley Surrey … testimony, and it has to be part of his humanity in his dealings with the Senate. He has that as well as the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was the highpoint, because the first Bush was willing to deal with Kennedy, and then during the first two years of … to dismantle the social safety net enacted in the New Deal and expanded in the Great Society. Young There had … dominance of American politics established by Franklin D. Roosevelt have been effectively ended by two years of Bill …
Presidential Biographies
… husband and was a gracious hostess to Johnson's powerful new friends. The new President, Franklin Roosevelt, was fighting the Depression with dozens of social … as owner of a local radio station, aligned himself with Roosevelt's sweeping social policies, and won election in …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… together. Riley There are two big pieces that we didn't deal with last time. We really didn't talk much about your … trying to remember which bank it was that bought them in New York, and Rahm made a great deal of money. It allowed him …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… months, I met him, talked to him a little bit, not a great deal, mainly worked with his staff. My recollection is that … going, what we were doing—and a young reporter from the New York Times was on board the airplane, named Bob Semple. …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… just a formal greeting, during which he welcomed the new Senators. At that time, there were 16 new Senators, eight … Currently, in 2009, his chairmanship of the committee dealing with health legislation has once again, even during … period of military engagements. You both had to deal with these issues. How have you seen your views differ …
Presidential Biographies
… also influenced by and heavily supportive of Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempts to alleviate the Depression with the New Deal programs. Humphrey briefly attended the University … (WPA), the Minnesota War Manpower Commission, and Roosevelt's 1944 campaign, Humphrey ran successfully for …
Presidential Biographies
… assert that American entry into World War II—and not Roosevelt's New Deal—lifted the United States out of its economic … exaggerating their effects and paving the way for Franklin Roosevelt's victory in the 1932 presidential election. What …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… later with my relationship with Senator Kennedy. I went to New York for a year, was in a My Fair Lady touring company, … that they weren’t working on the issues I was going to deal with as Labor Committee Staff Director. Greg kept …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… things like that, and I enjoyed that. But he had a whole new staff and all sorts of things that I had not been privy … to show the personalities who were there and how he was dealing with them? We’ve heard some of these, but there have …
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… federal institutions “carried out ‘executive justice’ in new fields of social and economic governance—from setting … expectations of the modern American presidency. Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson all …
Presidential Biographies
… of his and the executive director of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's cabinet committee on economic security. While … approval for HEW's legislation and met with a great deal of success, guiding roughly sixty-five bills relating to … and he reorganized its public health division, with a new assistant secretary under HEW's auspices assumed many of …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Ambassador-at-Large to the former Soviet Republics (or New Independent States) and Deputy Secretary of State … how should he use a speech he was going to be giving in New York on aid to Russia where he sensed both that there was …