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… proposal, there was an article in the paper that all the foreign policy people picked up on. It was a guy, a senior … in ? Knight Nationally, not in . He had a guy named Johnny Hayes who was his finance chair in Tennessee, who was a …
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… was on all fours. I know the media loves to make a lot of hay out of such questions, but my view is, of course, there … make that difference. And he’d always been interested in foreign policy, and DOD was something he had a particular … There were two main Cabinet councils? Brady Domestic and Foreign. Young And [Richard] Thornburgh was head of the …
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… this amounted to not only my testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but also answering dozens of … I said I would. I met Ronald Reagan downtown at the Hay-Adams Hotel. The meeting was scheduled to go half-an-hour …
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… the history of the Director of OMB; and the domestic and foreign policy decision making in the White House … Zelikow … and for a while the Democrats were making a little bit of hay saying he has a secret plan to cut Medicare. But at the … Which I also went to at Kennebunkport. Zelikow Another for foreign policy. Darman I did not go to one on foreign policy, …
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… very often the exit, because it’s very difficult. You have foreign material down there and until you can get that …
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… about. He could hold his own on domestic policy, but on foreign policy he needed help, and Tony was great. So Tony … occasionally pop in on them. But I had never done a lot in foreign affairs, so I certainly didn’t have much to … all the members, it’s very hush-hush. Morrisroe The Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board? Mikva That’s it, good …
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… and [Samuel] Tilden got beat in the House by Rutherford B. Hayes. But basically the Democrats only won the White House … but a lot of these were really important choices. On foreign policy, we made it very clear that we were not going … problem Democrats had. It’s not that we aren’t smarter on foreign policy than the other guys; people just doubt in the …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… taking us. Riley Do you remember on what grounds? Was it foreign policy? Snow Foreign policy was less his issue. It … North Carolina? We went down there— Smith Robin [Robert] Hayes. Snow Right, Robin Hayes. We had a great day with him. …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… interregnum. What was going on within the Republican foreign policy–making community in the period when President … So there was a lot of thinking going on on the Hill and in foreign policy circles generally among Republicans. Rumsfeld … the Secretary said to me, “We need to care deeply about foreign audiences. It is not just about the United States. It …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …