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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… The beauty of Mandela's car pulling up to the front of the JFK [John Fitzgerald Kennedy] Library and there stood Senator …
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… sketch from the Arlington Cemetery Website . JFK Daily Diary, October 2, 1963 . Meeting Tape 114/A49, John … 2003. Howard Jones, Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War (New …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and it was the night that [Yitzhak] Rabin—after Rabin was assassinated, and he flew to Israel. He said, “It doesn’t … hard campaigning did in making a first ballot victory for JFK—again it’s so often just said like, “Oh, yes, well, he …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… may have had Parkinson’s. That’s what he said. I think he [JFK] had some kind of Parkinsonian syndrome, but whatever it …
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… presidents, regarding burglary and wiretapping and assassinations of foreign leaders, Nixon’s actions in … taken from him and that better educated richer people like JFK, had everything given to them, and Nixon had to scrap for …
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… months later, following the national tragedy of Kennedy’s assassination, his successor, Lyndon Johnson, urged the … do these critics propose? Legislating Civil Rights: JFK v. LBJ As Brian Balogh and Bruce Schulman note, “the fate …
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… his inaugural address and is an honorable one— FACTOID: JFK was inaugurated as the 35th president on January 20, 1961 … capabilities, scary capabilities to kill people, to assassinate people, and he did around the world. FACTOID: … to actually bring stability to the Middle East. So you can assassinate people, but it’s not really clear that that’s …
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… David Coleman, deputy director of the PRP who oversees the JFK project, carefully reviewed each of Dr. Stern's … Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power (New York: W.W. … used unadulterated sound files--digital copies of the JFK Library's Digital Audio Tape (DAT) masters. And they used …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… torn about what to do. Then Martin Luther King was assassinated, which was another terrible blow. Robert Kennedy …
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… plastic circular discs. [3] Following President Kennedy's assassination, he began recording his telephone conversations … this collection. Later, in response to the John F. Kennedy Assassinations Records Collection Act of 1992, all known … [8] Recordings and Transcripts of Conversations: JFK Assassination-Related Conversations finding aid, LBJ …
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… sixth in 2009 to eighth this year. While scholars admire JFK’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, they seem ready … cause havoc. The CIA in the 1950s triggered coups, plotted assassinations, and shipped arms and cash to authoritarian …
Dwight D. Eisenhower is looking better and better. A recent poll of historians ranks him as the fifth-best president in our nation’s history.
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… influential California primary. That night, Kennedy was assassinated and died two days later, giving the lead back to … in 1964, specifically because of the public still mourning JFK’s death, the president’s party was going through seismic …
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… policies when Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency upon JFK’s assassination. Senator Kennedy agreed with the 1964 Tonkin …
In 1966, Senator Kennedy wrote his first critical statement on Vietnam, marking the beginning of his transition from hawk to dove. One of his main concerns regarding Vietnam dealt with the war’s impact on the American people.
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… words had been secretly captured on tape. After Kennedy’s assassination, Evelyn Lincoln was quickly displaced by … 23–24. [2] Philip Bennett, “Mystery Surrounds Role of JFK Tapes Transcriber,” Boston Globe , 31 March 1993, p. 1; …
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… became president in 1901 after President McKinley’s assassination, most Americans knew little about him beyond … voting Republican. Johnson may or may not have surprised JFK by accepting the offer, but the indisputable result was … the United States and the Soviet Union; upon election JFK was informed that there was indeed a missile gap but that …
The different ways in which presidents enter the White House often shape their first-year prospects and agendas.
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… an hour or two of it happening—like a foreign leader being assassinated or a foreign crisis of some kind, an airplane …
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… internally. After President Reagan was shot during an assassination attempt in 1981, he was able to persuade …
A rookie president, entering office with as much goodwill as he (or she) is ever likely to enjoy, has room to maneuver and opportunities to act that seldom last long. At least since FDR presidents have intently followed the media’s short-term judgments about success and failure.
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… reunification under Minh as a Cold War defeat. Before his assassination, Kennedy publicly called South Vietnam the …
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… JFK and astronaut John Glenn peer inside the Friendship 7 … Space Center in Florida named for him soon after his assassination, but the day Neil Armstrong first walked on the …
A journey through the American space program, through the lens of the presidency
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… John Kennedy JFK's narrow victory over Eisenhower's vice president, … When the bill failed in July by two votes in the Senate, JFK was left to lament , “I believe this is a most serious … Johnson assumed the presidency following the stunning assassination of his predecessor, and his first months in …
Every administration since FDR's New Deal has had to consider the appropriate role of government in securing the nation's health