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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… on May 13, 2008, in Washington, D.C. Tell me about how you met Ted Kennedy and what your first impressions of … At the Department of Education, Tom Wolanin, who did Congressional affairs, said, You should do this. This is … Historically Kennedy had been against vouchers, but he was very pro-D.C. voting rights, long before I was there. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Knott How long have you lived in this area? Gargan About 10 years. … as much time in those years with Ted as Mary Jo and Joe did, as I was the little one who they’d just as soon stayed …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… It was one of those things, when I saw him and said hello. He probably wouldn’t remember me saying hello to him. It was after the election of President [John F.] Kennedy, and it was after Birmingham, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… United States Senate, which will be located up in Boston. He asked us to handle the oral history part of it. Sasser Us … Affairs. We do oral histories primarily on the American Presidency, but we’ve segued now into the Legislative Branch, … him as a Senator, but also a little more than that, just how in some ways the U.S. Senate works or doesn’t work. Jan’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the interview, and I’d like to suggest we just talk about how you first came to know Ted Kennedy. Hanan Well, it was in … Law School. Frankly, I remember exactly when I met him. He was walking down a glass corridor between two …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… MacNeil talks about Robert Kennedy’s decision to run for president and about Edward Kennedy’s residential ambitions. … with Kennedy and talk about the changes in covering him as he developed over time. We want to talk about the … recollection of that. MacNeil Well, his brother became President in 1961, and the next year he ran for his brother’s …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… about what to cover in this series of interviews and how, and now we’ll start. Littlefield I’m assuming that we … while I was at Harvard. I was a freshman the year President [John F.] Kennedy was elected, and I was a senior when he died. His election was transformative for all of us who …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of us were working to assert the proposition that the President had a lot of executive power to accomplish things in civil rights, which he could do even if he was unable to get legislation. After … group. I started it with Arthur Flemming, who had served Presidents from [Franklin D.] Roosevelt on, and who had a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy. Mikulski Why don’t I give you an outline of how I know him before we value-add to or amplify? We need to … that was so successful and we were so good at what we did, and he chaired it. So that was my first direct exposure other …
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… political advertisements that the Democratic campaign did run had a different message and tone than those from the … Republican camp. This section examines the ways in which presidents responded to the technological development of television and how it influenced electoral campaigns, communications …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Founder & President, McGinty Scholarship Fund; Board Member, Mass … tell me about Mike [McGinty]. McGinty Mike was my husband. He and I lived in Foxboro, Massachusetts. He worked for Marsh … we were walking into the bedroom she said, This used to be President [John F.] Kennedy’s bedroom. So we were in …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Why don't we start at the very beginning? When did you first meet [Edward M.] Kennedy, and what were your … initial impressions of him were formed before I met him. He was not your average new Senator when I was a kid at …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… his work in the early 1970s on Hart’s Judiciary staff. He comments on his early impressions of Kennedy, noting the … the Supreme Court and his impressions of Jimmy Carter as president. … but I think I have a feel for him. When people ask me what he's like, I usually focus on the difference between the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with Sarah. What we’re going to do is start with, when did you first meet Senator Kennedy? Philipps That’s a better … No, that’s all right. There was not a peep from the President’s office. Some time in the spring… Heininger For a … time and I was driving back and forth to Albany when he was there. But when that job finished, then I was sort of …
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… of the size of the plane. We got to the school and the president was shaking hands with people, the superintendent, … the principal, along the inside wall of the school. He got to the end of shaking hands and Karl was the first one to get to the president and whispered in the president's ear, "The World Trade Center has been hit by an …
The page said, "World Trade Center has been hit by an airplane." Like everybody, my first reaction was that it must have been some terrible accident; there was no indication of the size of the plane. We got to the school and the president was shaking hands with people, the superintendent, the principal, along the inside wall of the school. He got to the end of shaking hands and Karl was the first one to get to the president and whispered in the president's ear, "The World Trade Center has been hit by an airplane."
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I first met him in the Oval Office, at a meeting that President [George Walker] Bush called, the first week he was President. He was rolling out his recommendations for …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Myers describes how he was hired by Edward Kennedy and his work on refugee and … Program. Kennedy was really the one who got that going. He was the one who came up with the idea and got the UN … about Simpson that he was a person of his word. That’s how he rose to become Whip so quickly on the Republican side. …
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… political news for the Nixon administration. But the president was angered when Howard Goldstein, the assistant … labor statistics, said during congressional testimony, "How much of the total drop in unemployment is real and how … President Nixon on Jews in the government …
Presidential Biographies
… prominent historians in 1962 placed Eisenhower 22nd among Presidents, a barely average chief executive who was as … later, his ranking had moved up to 11th, and by 1994, he placed 8th, the same position he held in a C-SPAN poll of … more records and papers have become available to study his presidency. Contemporaries remembered Eisenhower's frequent …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… health insurance and Medicare. Healthcare efforts of Presidents Nixon, Carter, and Clinton are brought up. Fine … Fine I believe I first met him in ’63, soon after he became a Senator. I was working in the Jack Kennedy White House as part of a group that the President put together to work on Medicare. Heininger Tell …