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… published in POLITICO Magazine] President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s legislative grand slam over his first 100 days in office—during which he enacted such pillars of the New Deal as the Glass-Steagall financial reforms, the …
Recent presidential history, however, teaches us that the first 100 days of a presidency is too short a time span to measure a president’s success.
Presidential Biographies
… His wartime mobilization program became a model for the New Deal’s fight against the Great Depression in the 1930s and for Franklin Roosevelt’s mobilization policies during World War II. He was …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… and won’t say much. Young There had also been this kind of new arithmetic, a new way of getting the nomination because … Carter wouldn’t agree with that. He’s very difficult to deal with on the basis of what, if anything, was wrong with … of the Democratic Party, with the symbols of Franklin Roosevelt and [Harry] Truman and the various others. Bell I …
Presidential Recordings
… time after 3:44 pm. Instructions for Bull -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Birthdate -Theodore R. Roosevelt -Age at death … -Kimmelman -Dwayne D. Andrews US–Soviet Union grain deal -Recent telephone call from Thomas C. (:Teddy”) Gleason … role -San Francisco -David Packard -Los Angeles, New York -Chicago -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Amounts …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… And I think the third reason was my being a physician and dealing with health issues—he felt that I might be qualified. … Governor. At least 50 percent of everything the Governor deals with has public health involved, either directly or … the one who recommended me for it. Knott Did you have any dealings with President [Jimmy] Carter? I think we came …
Presidential Biographies
… list stood Abraham Lincoln. He was followed by Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas … commander in chief and as chief executive into a powerful new position, making the President supreme over both Congress …
Public Events
… as the country began a terrible civil war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt inherited the greatest economic collapse in our … as the country began a terrible civil war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt inherited the greatest economic collapse in our … FDR makes compromises with southern Democrats to get the New Deal through, that are very bad for some people, …
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… year of their administrations—a sobering reminder that a new president can either harness the power of the nation’s … You can intimidate everybody.” —James Carville To the new president: Eight of your predecessors confronted a major …
Eight presidents confronted a major domestic financial crisis in the first year of their administrations—a sobering reminder that a new president can either harness the power of the nation’s economy, or be run over by it.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of saving himself and his relevance as President in this new Gingrich era. The first part of this is what I knew about … for what Democrats have always stood for: the [Franklin] Roosevelt/[John F.] Kennedy/[Harry S.] Truman coalition …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… convinced Senator Kennedy that the major problem with this new focus on nuclear arms and the Cold War—and on what it … Kennedy began to feel that there were alternative ways to deal with the situation. The war was going badly, and many … Senator Kennedy wishes that he’d been in the [Franklin D.] Roosevelt Cabinet so that they wouldn’t have taken on only …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I was one of the first physicians who did that. That was a new subspecialty in medicine. Heininger What was the name of … had theirs, and everyone said, Gee, this is a done deal. We just have to decide what it’s going to look like. …
Presidential Biographies
… member of the Disciples of Christ. After Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President in 1932, Jack Reagan was … Hollywood agent. By chance, Warner Brothers was seeking a new actor to replace a promising young star who had died in a … Franklin D. Roosevelt for President in 1932 and backed his New Deal. Roosevelt's resonant optimism dazzled Reagan, who …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Library, there’s a real push—Ron Walker has become the new president of the foundation, and he was the one who went … guy that I had with me, who went out there before me, was new and this is old technology, and we couldn’t get the phone … also significantly on regulatory reform, which was his big deal. So it didn’t relate so much to what I did and what we …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… the public and students of the Presidency have a great deal to learn from the perspectives of those who have been … I met Jimmy Carter as a lark almost at the first dinner in New York given by Ted Sorenson at the Twenty-One Club. This … world, what we were concerned about, the problems we were dealing with, and our own different views in off the record …
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… the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral David Jeremiah noted the new Clinton administration was not prepared for waging … Bush administration’s intervention in Somalia to try to deal with the famine is probably as good a case study in … daily in the White House doing foreign policy 101 in the Roosevelt Room with the newbies in the administration. U.S. …
The George H. W. Bush oral history project examines Somalia and the transition from Bush to Clinton
Presidential Biographies
… As the new century loomed just over the horizon, the time seemed … greatly influenced political leaders like Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge. These individuals looked … contentious political atmosphere, McKinley was forced to deal with the problem of Cuba—a foreign policy issue the …
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… presidents owned enslaved people, and all of them had to deal with slavery as a political issue … that had grown dependent on slavery demanded that the new US Constitution not interfere with the existing … racial equality. 40 Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, his vaunted program of federal involvement to rescue …
Before the Civil War, many US presidents owned enslaved people, and all of them had to deal with slavery as a political issue
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… saw him, he immediately picked up where we were last—gave new ideas, asking what’s up, and is my staff really working … you now more than I did then. He just barely got through New Hampshire. He’d done better than people thought he would, …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… of Virginia in graduate school, I was interested in the New Left. I recall, even to this day, walking up the stairs … We’d usually meet in the Cabinet room, occasionally in the Roosevelt room. We’d have lunch, go around the table, say …
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… A new president's success is limited by structural and … How true! With the obvious exception of Franklin D. Roosevelt, those remembered as our “greatest” presidents did … and much more to do with whether the president can “set a new ideological direction for the country.” Therefore, …
A new president's success is limited by structural and institutional realities