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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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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the [Newton] Gingrich revolution, so to speak. Not only did he stop the very radical ideas that the Republicans, under … those years, although he was dealing with a Republican President for the first four years of that period. He …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… in the Foreign Relations Committee, which I was on. He was interested in Central American issues, El Salvador and … on the Labor and Human Resources Committee. Heininger Did you come in with a view of him, as many new Senators do, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… then wife. We had a great time. We had a lot of fun. The President had just come back from his trip to Ireland, and Bill [Shannon] had written the speech that he gave at the Dáil, which is the Irish Parliament, which had …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… involved, including the issue of a Kennedy “dynasty.” He also discusses the poll tax. … by that, the only law school here in Cambridge. When did I get out of here? In ’40. I’d been going to college … it had evolved into such a great power at the time. He went around the country interviewing people and selected …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… President, Center on Education Policy … of my subcommittee was Roman Pucinski, from Chicago. He brought me into two House-Senate conference committees at … a few more votes in the next election, or We’ll have a President who’s more cooperative in the next election. You …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Under much duress by the respondent, but by my persuasion, he has agreed, with great reticence, to just discuss a little … to the Senator, what he knew about him before, and how this all evolved professionally, how the initial …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the best place to begin would be to ask both of you how you first came to know the Kennedys—in particular, John … him until we got to the convention, and didn’t even know he was a candidate for the Vice Presidency. It was my first convention, and it was exciting. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Joel Packer begins by discussing how he first got to know Senator Edward Kennedy while working as … Assistance Act. My initial impressions of him were that he was a very active, energetic, and somewhat domineering … gave a rousing speech about why we should support this, how he had fought his best fight, how NEA was so helpful, how …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Leahy on August 5, 2009. Normally I start by asking, When did you first meet Kennedy and what were your first … I’m going to start with a different question this time: How do you feel about the fact that Kennedy’s not here for … Stephen Breyer? Leahy It’s not just the Supreme Court, and he was here for every one of the current members of the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… between 1989 and 1994, from the beginning of the President [George H.W.] Bush Administration, through the … record, I don’t think this is widely appreciated, how significant those six years were in terms of actually … enacted. As you said, it was all part of an agenda that he developed each Congress, and in the first Bush …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Lugar focuses on his work as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, with specific … March 6, 2009. Why don’t we start at the beginning. When did you first meet [Edward] Kennedy, and what were your … was on that occasion, just a formal greeting, during which he welcomed the new Senators. At that time, there were 16 new …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Dan Fenn begins with his political background. He then discusses reform of the Massachusetts Democratic … editing a couple of magazines and doing some teaching, and did that. Then I would say late June, early July, Ralph … October ’63, when Kennedy, in the next to last appointment he made, appointed me to the U.S. Tariff Commission, now …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… idea of this project started a couple of years ago when he was, with some of his friends and advisors, thinking about … so that they could look back and, as he put it, Learn how our laws are really made, and learn about the least …
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… when the September 11th attack occurred. After becoming president of Texas A&M the following year, Gates offered … on the Bush administration's response to 9/11. Eventually, he returned to government to serve as secretary of state for … really bad things. Nelson Over the weeks that followed, how did you assess the performance of the Bush …
Who thought, on September 12th, that we would go more than 10 years without another successful attack? Nobody believed that. All Americans believed there was going to be another attack.
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Knott Perhaps the best place to start is simply to ask you how it is that you came to work for Senator Kennedy. Sutphen … [Jr.], because Goody at the time, worked for the Vice President. Since Harold was from Tennessee, our office worked … after the election in November of ’98. At that point I did not have the job with Senator Kennedy, but I had decided …
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| George W. Bush Project… Special Assistant to the President (NSC); Special Envoy to Afghanistan; United States … Afghanistan and coming to the United States for college. He discusses his time at the Department of Defense during the … is it?" He talked about Albert in unusual terms. "He calls President Kennedy ‘Jack.' He talks about Kissinger as …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… objection of the Republican, Newt Gingrich–led majority. He was able to enact the Kennedy-[Nancy] Kassebaum health … because just before the summer recess, on August 3, 1996, President [William J.] Clinton invited the Democratic …
Presidential Biographies
… and striking a sporty profile. But First Ladies still did not typically make speeches or express political opinions, and President Calvin Coolidge preferred his wife to hew to a more traditional role. He did not wish to see her wearing slacks, bobbing her hair, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and my first interaction with Senator Kennedy was when he sent me a letter when I was 12 or 13 years old … than my parents had once taken me there for a weekend. How could I possibly compete with the young men and women who …