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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the Wilbur Mills thing. Labor was all over him, you know. He just felt he couldn’t go there. Heininger Why the decision … of the committee by that time. We got it back in ’86. We did a lot of talking with the business community, and with …
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… Listen as Alice Rivlin remembers the budget debates of President Clinton's first year … On January 27th, 1998, during his State of the Union , President Bill Clinton boasted of major progress in reducing … 1998 was projected to be $357 billion and heading higher,” he said. “This year, our deficit is projected to be $10 …
Listen as Alice Rivlin remembers the budget debates of President Clinton's first year
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Bayh Of course Ted and I were elected on the same day. He was elected to fill the unexpired term of his brother, so … spoon in his mouth, and if one looks at his life, I think he did more to help people who couldn’t help themselves than …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… D.C. It’s May 23, 2007. Why don’t we start with how you originally came to start working for the Senator. … Administrative Practice and Procedure [AdPrac], and he was looking for ideas. Since Wozencraft, as head of the …
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… Officials in the George H. W. Bush administration recount how they decided to quell the violence during the 1992 riots … him to do so. After leading police on a high-speed chase, he was arrested and then severely beaten. A nearby resident … years earlier in St. Croix, so I was very familiar with how to use regular Army in a domestic situation. I understood …
Officials in the George H. W. Bush administration recount how they decided to quell the violence during the 1992 riots in Los Angeles by sending in the troops.
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… discusses his work as a staffer for Senator Hatch and how he interacted with Kennedy, as well as his time as FDA … Francisco. Why don’t we start at the very beginning? When did you meet him, which is all part of how did you come to … a minority. Heininger What differences did you see in how he operated? Kessler It’s not how he operates. It was the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… for the second position on his House subcommittee staff. He was going to take over the chairmanship of the … I’d come down. He’d already made up his mind—I don’t know how—so it was a matter of convincing me it was what I should …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in Washington. Let’s start at the very beginning. When did you first meet [Edward M.] Kennedy, and what were your … was providing them help, especially Paul Donovan, when he was the press secretary. Heininger Did John Hilley hire …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… an interesting time. You all may be surprised: when did I first meet Senator Kennedy? Nineteen sixty-two. Knott … surprises you. Knott That is surprising, yes. Heininger How did you meet him? Cochran At his house in Hyannis Port. I … this 100 years from now trying to get a sense of what he was like and what the Senate was like. That’s what we’re …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… me to come up to the Hill and chat with him. Heininger Why did he call you? Goldman It’s actually amusing. My secretary …
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… to remember that transitions can be a vulnerable time. President Donald Trump could create or inherit situations … They examine Bush's decision to send U.S. troops and how the incoming Clinton administration handled the … Bush Oral History Project Director of CIA Bill Gates : [T]he Bush administration’s intervention in Somalia to try to …
The George H. W. Bush oral history project examines Somalia and the transition from Bush to Clinton
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… times with Ted Kennedy. Maybe you want to talk a bit about how you came to connect with him. There’s a lot of Louisiana … John Tunney, who I think at the time was in the Senate; he’d left the House. They came down to the Student Legal … and he had gone to sleep. I couldn’t really decide if he did that for show, to let everybody know that he was not …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… D.C. Let’s start at the beginning. Tell me about how you first met Senator Kennedy. What were your initial … the Rules Committee, Congressman William Colmer. Obviously he was an atypical southern Democrat of the time, and there … think we had a reception before he spoke, a big crowd, and he did a fine job. Since Jim Eastland had invited him, he had …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… own election campaign and then what happened after he won reelection and came back to Washington to face the … and a Democratic Party that was utterly demoralized and a President who really wasn’t sure what to do. All the tea …
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… What I was fearful of was that Gorbachev—as I thought he had actually done with the [Ronald] Reagan administration … that I came into the administration with. I don’t think President Bush ever bought on completely to my theory, but he … for real? Does he really want to transform things? Or did the old men of the Kremlin—who certainly didn’t think …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… place. I think I was there to cover something else and he was doing something else, but I just said hello to him. I … nephew of the Speaker of the House and the brother of the President. If that’s not enough for you, on the other side we …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… what had happened was that [Ronald] Reagan had been the President for eight years, and the whole mantra there was … this broad agenda to change the focus of what government did again, to get it back to where it had been in the Great … was really the voice that led that transformation, and he was the relentless worker who pushed those issues all the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… about Edward Kennedy. My first question is, when and how did you come to feel that you really knew him? Doris … him as a friend. Early on, after we knew his brothers, he would come to Louisiana on occasion, once to represent his …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… so we just hold it until we’re finished with everybody. I did talk a long time and very thoroughly with the Senator … going to see what the Senator said until it’s released. He definitely wants the cleared version of these transcripts …
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… How did President Trump—and his team—respond to the first reports of … Oral History Program here at the Miller Center. He is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on both elite …
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