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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to Congress and to the country at the beginning of the new administration. The bitter words and debate over the … education staff, and from the Senator himself—that a great deal needed to be done to improve the quality of the nation’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… prefer it, and so we can spend the maximum amount of time dealing with the things that you think are important in the … a little bit of time on later on. I think it has a good deal to do with the way not only a President, but a good … had the responsibility for personnel and so forth in the new press office. It was that tension that continued …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… the circumstance, as all the members of the staff do, of dealing first with a commitment to accuracy, and that means … and asked to come to his office to involve myself in a new project. The project involved the drafting of positions …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… bill that became law in 1986. So I was brought on staff to deal with the refugee concerns, but I also came with a … coming in—that President Carter was dropping the ball on dealing with the problem, so people like Kennedy—who was … it illegal for illegals to work, but it added to the law a new provision imposing sanctions on employers who hired …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… These were stories in the Washington Post and—not the New York Times, but the tabloids in New York had it. This was … passed that would give him more power to make trade deals with South America. That was dead in the water. …
Presidential Recordings
… -Prestige -Compared to previous presidents -Soviet grain deal -Consistency -Aggressive rebuttal -Patrick J. Buchanan … -Historical context -British prime ministers -Theodore Roosevelt -Panama Canal -World War II -[Franklin D. … -Morality -The President’s experience -Pacific -Rome -New York -V-J Day -London Times -Compared to Washington Post …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… time to do this. I felt like I sort of bushwhacked you in New York. Paster I wasn't trying to be difficult the last … since become a very good friend, we stay in touch a good deal. I have the greatest respect for him. Riley He's one of …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… notetaking in the Pentagon and Bush administration; dealing with interagency disputes in the Bush administration, … innocent. She always told us how she cried when Franklin Roosevelt died. They voted for [Adlai] Stevenson twice; they … of the general effort to get support for a tough policy in dealing with Soviet threats. Jackson also had views on …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… the CBO was created explicitly as a nonpartisan agency to deal with that problem. But when you’re running a nonpartisan … Administration, the economy was a bit down, we were the new game in town, and adventurous people were interested in … quickly. We also didn’t have Civil Service rules to deal with. We were a congressional agency. We were to run, …
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… Since the landmark opening sessions of Franklin Roosevelt’s first term, presidents and the news media have touted the first hundred days of a new administration as a precious window during which …
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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… when contemplating the suite of offices across from the Roosevelt Room. There is a cynical view held by the press and … when contemplating the suite of offices across from the Roosevelt Room. There is a cynical view held by the press and … as the media environment evolves. Be an early adopter of new technologies. Go where your audience is and don’t expect …
There is a romanticized view of the White House communications and press office that West Wing viewers bring to the table when contemplating the suite of offices across from the Roosevelt Room. There is a cynical view held by the press and some in the public of the operation as an information control, state media propaganda machine—the so-called “permanent campaign.”
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… former Yugoslavia. Terrorism, the Drug War, and America's new role in the Post-Cold War world are also discussed. … help the Rwandans is not one that intelligence has a great deal to offer. The information about what was going on there … for Christmas with my family. Is it okay if I come after New Year’s, or does it really need to be between Christmas …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… processing all of those letters. So a part of the job was dealing with the thousands of invitations the President … Staff. He was seated at the head of the long table in the Roosevelt Room. And he said, You’re the scheduler? I want you … when there’s a change, at a university maybe—if there’s a new regime coming in, everyone’s trying to figure how they …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… about how, in 1960 when I was growing up on Long Island in New York, you would get what were called Kennedy quarters. … the inaugural when I would have been eight. That was a big deal in our house. When I was 15 and was beginning to think …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… just surged, but a ton of it was based on a relatively new phenomenon, not wages and good old-fashioned salary and … I go through this history. What did FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] do? What did [Harry] Truman do? Of course this got …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… do something about the walls of discrimination. And we had new leadership after eight years of Republicanism and [Dwight … 70. (Now we’re talking in the teens.) So there was a great deal of confidence in the government in terms of its … So the country was on track in a positive and hopeful way, dealing with problems. Then we had the loss of President …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… names. Baker I’m Nancy Baker, an associate professor at New Mexico State University. Hult I’m Karen Hult, professor … your long tenure in Congress, you had the opportunity to deal with a number of different Presidents. What is your …
Presidential Speeches
… Clinton speaks of establishing a New Covenant, taking decision making out of the hands of … people by improving health care, reducing crime, creating new jobs and enhancing security at home and abroad. … of a sacred trust, and we must be faithful to it in this new and very demanding era." Over 200 years ago, our Founders …
Presidential Biographies
… in the presidential race would be Democrat Al Smith of New York, a Catholic who railed against Prohibition. Smith … Americans, though, rallied around Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt and his "New Deal," with its vague promises of a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of my life. He eventually went to the Rusk Institute in New York and got specialized attention from this fellow, … humanity out of a family, and this other system that was dealing with it in a humane and decent way, and a more … and his disappointment, and that at least [Franklin D.] Roosevelt had looked at it in the ’30s and decided to go with …