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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… when [Alfred] Landon was running against [Franklin D.] Roosevelt in 1936. I also remember watching a torchlight … so that he was to be part of this triumvirate to bring new blood into the Party, new activity. It was sort of the … for a long time. So Bob Kennedy and Nathan Pusey made this deal, it was a wonderful idea, that this precinct in …
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| George W. Bush Project… Schwab, and John Thain, who at the time was head of the New York Stock Exchange, and several of the other titans of … doing to troubleshoot the economic environment that you're dealing with at this time, or are the threats so vague that …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… went to [Douglas] MacArthur’s headquarters in Brisbane and New Guinea, transferred to Admiral [Richard] Connolly’s … throughout the Departments where he learns much about dealing with everything from health and human services to …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… who had been on Larry O’Brien’s staff. We went up to New York and met with Larry O’Brien. We met with him twice, … I would never do, and did not want to do, as good a job of dealing with the Department of Transportation issues as the … was some pain from the election with which you had to deal? What was your general perception of the Hill at the …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… opportunity. As you can imagine one does not have a great deal of time to reflect on what one is doing when one is in … and drawing them into coalitions on issues, we were also dealing with groups on an item-by-item basis. For example, we … began at 7:45 in the morning for the deputy. We met in the Roosevelt Room and it usually was a meeting of more than just …
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… leader. The critical question at the commencement of any new presidency is “what time is it?” The answer is seldom … Democracy between 1830 and 1860, or the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism between 1930 and 1980, each of which … have done so—Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan—were opposition leaders who …
If I were to advise the next president on inauguration eve, I would remind him or her that the oath they will take the following midday will start an implacable four year countdown. But I would also point out that the calendar is only one measure of time for the nation’s political leader.
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| George W. Bush Project… you on campus. A man named Jonathan Clarke from the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell interviewed me and he … and find myself working on M&A [mergers and acquisitions] deals and public offerings and banking regulations. I had one …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… White House staff as Special Assistant to the President dealing with budgeting and long-range planning. That’s how I … people can say, I know what the President wants. He wants new federalism, he wants to devolve functions and activities …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Somolia, Haiti, Les Aspin, budget, Bosnia, appointing a new chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, North Korea, and Iraq. … Ross, Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico and Director of the Office for Policy, Security …
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| George W. Bush Project… secretary of labor, the role of the Cabinet in the new Bush administration, and presidential transitions. She … I was curious. I credit my parents with giving me a great deal of, obviously, love, but also motivation in my life. I'm … when I was eight years old, and I grew up in Queens, New York. Then, as our family situation improved, we moved to …
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| Bill Clinton Project… I don't think there is a right way. Every President comes new to the job, full of ideas, thinks he wants a particular … They're the President's right hand. They have a great deal of difficulty working together and building themselves …
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| Bill Clinton Project… speakers we could call to do it also. Young You had to deal with this Boston Harbor cleanup business and the Willie … but mothers. Currie Right. Young Seasoned women dealing with all of these enthusiastic, wild people. So is … transition, were there any people who were aware of your new portfolio before the election who would maybe give you a …
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| Bill Clinton Project… own political biography. I see you ran for the Assembly in New York. That’s not a story that, at least in our research, … who ran at the time. Harry Truman was a hero. Franklin Roosevelt, of course, was the hero of heroes. If some of you … to litigate. I learned how to try cases. I learned how to deal with judges and issues like that. Then we had a child …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… I think perhaps the best place to start—and I know you deal with this in your books—but if you could just take us … him go through an airport, or getting on the airplane, or dealing with the stewardess or total strangers, he was always … some little line or paragraph. So to him that was a new speech. But it was always the speech. I can’t argue with …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… having been appointed to the Senate, and I stayed with the new Attorney General. I then stayed with that Attorney … had them, and the two views converged. It suggests a great deal of thinking about how he wanted his advisory system …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… feel free to speak to history. And especially when you’re dealing with a sitting political figure, I think this is … the fringes. We had a little group that did canvassing in New Hampshire in 1968, and that was how I got started. So my … guff from somebody and have a vigorous discussion than deal with some sycophant. And that was really true of his …
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| George W. Bush Project… I chose William & Mary because it was a little better deal financially and I had a friend I had known in Kansas who … in their camp, and it mainly was because when you begin dealing with military operational plans, you’re dealing with … of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., about FDR [Franklin D. Roosevelt] in the early ’30s, when he said that Roosevelt had …
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| George H. W. Bush Project… the one Virginia delegate who supported Franklin Roosevelt was also the Congressman from that area. The rest … Bulgaria had all been assigned in the communist world by Roosevelt’s decisions at Yalta. And my dad was very active in … I provided the Republicans, and we hatched the deal. The deal was that there’d be no right to strike for …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… problems and the way the White House was organized for dealing with them. The third major subject, which we may get … difficult, particularly for a Democratic President, to deal with. The central economic problem that we came to … and the much more limited room for maneuver in terms of new programs, we weren’t anywhere near as aware as we should …
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| Jimmy Carter Project… first Presidency of an outsider since, at least, Franklin Roosevelt. It was a very personalized approach to the … of Washington experience, Carter approached the issues of dealing with the power centers in Washington as a southerner, … well, to a Roosevelt, who comes into office and has a good deal of political rhetoric on this, that, and the other …