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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. … a very strong relationship. I think he developed a lot of confidence. He came into the state really feeling down. I sat … to General Motors, to Westinghouse. I only came in on crisis jobs where they’d spend a lot of money and a lot of …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… Secretary of Health and Human Services … Otis Bowen describes his tenure at the head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the key issues that … and then that went awry. Bowen Our government runs by crisis. Whenever there is a crisis, they’ll meet it. And they …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… a foreign leader being assassinated or a foreign crisis of some kind, an airplane crash, or whatever—we'd … That's all it took. It took a few successes to feel confident. Then I could argue back against the other … of this pretty deep American art form. That gave me confidence, so my speeches were sailing through more quickly. …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… it. By that I mean it’s almost indescribable. There’s a crisis a minute.” He didn’t say precisely that, but I felt I … best you can. But you have to deal with something, often a crisis, quite often. I can tell you that Bill Clinton is … in front of us. And the reason was because of the confidence level people had reached as much or more than …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Deputy Secretary of Defense; Secretary of Defense … Haiti, Les Aspin, budget, Bosnia, appointing a new chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, North Korea, and Iraq. … what percentage of your time was spent on these reactive-crisis things as opposed to the assigned bits that were …
Presidential Recordings
… No. 929-17 (cont’d) -Stock market -Wall Street -Public confidence -Overhead and volume -Commission rates -Fixed … tax on gasoline -Justifying possible increase -Energy crisis and dependence on Arab oil -Popular opinion … -President’s view -Performance -Inflation rate -Consumer confidence -Boom -Reliability -Index -Survey -Inflation rate …
Presidential Recordings
… No. 929-17 (cont’d) -Stock market -Wall Street -Public confidence -Overhead and volume -Commission rates -Fixed … tax on gasoline -Justifying possible increase -Energy crisis and dependence on Arab oil -Popular opinion … -President’s view -Performance -Inflation rate -Consumer confidence -Boom -Reliability -Index -Survey -Inflation rate …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… pardons; White House communications; the 2008 financial crisis; and the 2008 election and Presidential transition. … didn't know that. Then Don Fierce, who was kind of Haley's confidant and right-hand man, pulled me aside after one of … What about the financial-- Gillespie Then the financial crisis. I was going to say TARP is the biggest thing in that …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I said, I’d never witnessed anything like that. No, he was confident. I felt he took Jessica’s story to heart. He asked … there. B. Katz That was about, what, five months after the crisis? N. Katz We got the first can of formula on, probably, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Jr.] McCormack. Young Yes, '62. And of course the missile crisis was in there. Seigenthaler That's right. Yes, that's … right. I forgot that. I mean, you talk about a family crisis. When that crash occurred, there was real fear he was …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… opportunity to become involved in it from a policy point of view, in many respects, goes back to my own observations … really cared about it. Young No. He said, “There is no crisis.” He said, “It’s an insurance crisis, it’s not a … have to give that to a board that people have confidence in. We can’t decide that, but that solves that …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… 2004 Riley This is the Janet Reno interview. It is a part of our Clinton Presidential History Project, and I should say … though, in my conversations with him, that he had lost the confidence of the FBI and he did not have the strength or the … position to take with respect to certain litigation, the crisis of the day, an update on terrorism, a meeting with the …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Secretary of Housing and Urban Development … Henry Cisneros discusses his perspectives on the rise of Bill Clinton, the 1992 campain, his experiences as Housing … case in particular that people often point to is the peso crisis. Is that something that you had—? Cisneros It didn’t …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… Office, and the President listens to people in whom he has confidence and who’ve been there with him in the thick and … going to rely on and take advice from people he has confidence in. So we sat down and worked, and we came up with … in the early days when Al Haig wanted to be in charge of crisis management. He walked in on Inauguration Day, and …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Does this person have the ability to handle a nuclear crisis? That was still in the back of people’s minds. So we … campaign? Soderberg The hardest one was Bosnia. It was the crisis of the day. Over that summer there were concentration … do on day one and how to deal with it. Haiti was the first crisis. Well, Somalia was the first one, and then Haiti and …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… and in the Congress in previous crises. Furthermore, in a crisis period, different groups of people have different … 16%, which in itself made some feel the economy was in crisis. There is a big, big difference between a normal 7% … in numerous ways, and that it was verging on being a crisis with the amount of regulation that was unnecessarily …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… You did well. You got your baptism under fire, you felt confident, and you just kind of went to work. There was no … stand out in your mind when there was perhaps not a crisis atmosphere, but a tense atmosphere in the National … experience in foreign affairs, to warrant a lot of self-confidence in the area, although he had it. Bush did . Why …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… Member of Council of Economic Advisers and National Economic Council … Riley: The David Cutler interview is a part of the Clinton Presidential History Project. Thank you for … a key Senator, says something like, There is no healthcare crisis. Cutler Yes. Patashnik Was that before Mrs. Clinton …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Ted Sorensen came up and briefed us on the missile crisis, in Senator Kennedy’s house, near Beacon Hill. Knott … to Latin America and Africa. Then there was the Berlin crisis in Germany with the autobahn, and Soviet problems here … he not? Something along those lines? Lindskog He did. How confident were you about victory in the campaign of ’62? Did …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… was firmly committed to not critiquing the President. I'm confident that President George W. Bush does not approve of … the prohibition is on public comments. In private, I'm confident that significant consultation goes on. President … He applied, yes, true. Ahtisaari The director of CMI [Crisis Management Initiative] said, "Martti, are you going to …