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Oral History Interviews
… was a real mistake. In every case where we succeeded in foreign policy taking on an adversary, we had NATO [North … elections most of the issues are domestic, not foreign. So I thought I had a good case to make, a good …
Presidential Biographies
… America on the road to world power. McKinley's difficult foreign policy decisions, especially his policy toward China … to a brevet major on the staff of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, who became a lifelong friend and mentor. When he …
Oral History Interviews
… became President, he asked me to come over see him in the Hay-Adams Hotel. He offered me the ambassadorship to Moscow. … grounding in it that Clinton was somebody who did not have foreign policy experience when he became President of the … been to Russia. Vietnam was a kind of an education in foreign policy. So I just always thought, give him a break on …
Oral History Interviews
… party that was out of touch on economics, out of touch on foreign policy, and out of touch on values. You couldn’t win … Social Security—on all of that, he was terrific. On foreign policy, I had a funny—I didn’t see him interacting on foreign policy so much, but I did have an incident where Gore …
Oral History Interviews
… role of the NSA (daily briefings, relationship with the foreign policy team, relationship with the White House … told him he’d called the wrong man, I had no experience in foreign policy, foreign affairs, defense, or the other things that would be …
Oral History Interviews
… but my boss had been National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars before he got into Congress, was a bosom buddy … was pushing, whether it was domestic or whether it was foreign policy or military, the thing that was the top of his …
Oral History Interviews
… of Staff. Health care, building the Cabinet, and some foreign policy issues are among the highlights of this … and Interior—than others, and he had a real voice on the foreign policy appointment. Young Two other questions about … proposition. I can still remember Wilma Rudolph and Bob Hayes in the Olympic games when I was a child. The re-elect …
Oral History Interviews
… field in New York. He was an associate of [John Hay] Jock Whitney who owned the Herald Tribune . Richard … very close to Henry Kissinger, who was then in charge of foreign policy for Ford. That was unquestioned. Rockefeller thought, well, if Henry’s in charge of foreign policy, I should be in charge of domestic policy as …
Presidential Biographies
… Elihu Root took charge of the nation's foreign affairs during his four and a half years as secretary … 27, 1901, Root practiced law briefly until replacing John Hay as secretary of state in July of 1905. While America's … awarded the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize. Root stayed active in foreign affairs, accepting President Wilson's appointment to …
Presidential Biographies
… Elihu Root took charge of the nation's foreign affairs during his four and a half years as secretary … 27, 1901, Root practiced law briefly until replacing John Hay as secretary of state in July of 1905. While America's … awarded the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize. Root stayed active in foreign affairs, accepting President Wilson's appointment to …
Presidential Biographies
… great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the strike. In 1883, … Gresham's modest means and insufficient knowledge of foreign policy issues made him a lackluster selection, and he …
Presidential Biographies
… great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the strike. In 1883, … Gresham's modest means and insufficient knowledge of foreign policy issues made him a lackluster selection, and he …
Presidential Biographies
… Elihu Root took charge of the nation's foreign affairs during his four and a half years as secretary … 27, 1901, Root practiced law briefly until replacing John Hay as secretary of state in July of 1905. While America's … awarded the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize. Root stayed active in foreign affairs, accepting President Wilson's appointment to …
Presidential Biographies
… great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the strike. In 1883, … Gresham's modest means and insufficient knowledge of foreign policy issues made him a lackluster selection, and he …
Oral History Interviews
… White House speechwriting process, especially relating to foreign trips; the use of humor in speeches; the importance … "Last night I was reading a biography of Rutherford B. Hayes and I noticed this…." It was really fun. I wish it …
Presidential Biographies
… he took out newspaper advertisements against Reagan-era foreign policy. Rehearsing a theme that would shape his … was selected in the House of Representatives); Rutherford Hayes (whose victory in the Electoral College only came after …
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Oral History Interviews
… the priorities at that time for the Presidency still had foreign policy at the top. That’s how it was won. Hargrove He … the positive themes. Sununu Yes. Hargrove Primarily foreign policy, less domestic. Sununu No, he articulated … and for some reason that particular briefing had a big foreign policy component to it. Scowcroft was there. I think …
Oral History Interviews
… shutdown, BTU tax and other taxes, welfare reform, budget, foreign policy, Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky … was so centered on the domestic that my attention to the foreign affairs area was limited to legislation. It was the … He was glad to be back. [BREAK] Riley On the question of foreign policy and national security and defense policy, is …
Oral History Interviews
… from Texas—I forget the third. The fourth one was Wayne Hays from Ohio. A curmudgeon—Wilbur Mills. In the case of … Skies agreement was contrary to the position of having foreign pilots flying in the United States. There is a term … the House Intelligence Committee in 1997 when we put the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act together. Riley FISA. …
Oral History Interviews
… they begin to really erode. Riley There were a couple of foreign policy events that occurred. We haven’t really talked about the foreign policy component. Greenberg Back on an earlier … groups under that heading? Greenberg Yes. Riley On the foreign policy issue, you’ve got the handshake between …