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Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy; Special Assistant to the President; Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations at the National Security Council; NSC Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Ronald Reagan Oral History Project
Prime Minister (Taoiseach) of Ireland
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Secretary of State
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Ronald Reagan Oral History Project
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation/Health at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget
Ronald Reagan Oral History Project
Assistant to the President for Policy Development
Ronald Reagan Oral History Project
Founder and president of the Alliance for Justice
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Assistant to the President for Political Affairs
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Senate Majority Leader; White House Chief of Staff
Ronald Reagan Oral History Project
White House Chief of Staff; Secretary of the Treasury
Ronald Reagan Oral History Project
White House Chief of Staff; Secretary of State
George H. W. Bush Oral History Project
White House Chief of Staff; Secretary of State
George H. W. Bush Oral History Project
Political and Legal Consultant and Family Friend
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Assistant Attorney General; Deputy Attorney General; Attorney General
George H. W. Bush Oral History Project
White House Communications Director, Counselor to the President
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Secretary to the Cabinet; Assistant to the President; Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff
George H. W. Bush Oral History Project
Staff Director, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Deputy Press Secretary to First Lady Barbara Bush; Chief of Staff to George H. W. Bush in his retirement
George H. W. Bush Oral History Project
Professor, Harvard University; president of Americans for Democratic Action
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Legal advisor to the National Security Council
Legal advisor to the State Department
Legal advisor to the State Department
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Legal advisor to the National Security Council
Legal advisor to the State Department
Legal advisor to the State Department
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; National Security Advisor
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; member of Council of Economic Advisers
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
George W. Bush Oral History Project
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
George W. Bush Oral History Project
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
George W. Bush Oral History Project
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
George H. W. Bush Oral History Project
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Ronald Reagan Oral History Project
Assistant to Staff Secretary; Staff Secretary
George H. W. Bush Oral History Project
Presidential Envoy to Iraq; Chief Executive Administrator of the Coalitional Provisional Authority
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Deputy Assistant to the President; Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council; Assistant to the President; Director of the USA Freedom Corps
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Jimmy Carter Oral History Project
Governor of Arkansas (1971-75); U.S. Senator
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Chief of Staff to Edward Kennedy; President of CBS News
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Chief of Staff to Edward Kennedy; President of CBS News
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Chief of Staff to Robert Dole; Senate Finance Committee Aid
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, 1977–79
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
George W. Bush Oral History Project
President of Brazil, 1995-2003
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Secretary of Defense
Ronald Reagan Oral History Project
Deputy Assistant for Domestic Affairs and Policy
Jimmy Carter Oral History Project
General; Chief of Staff of the United States Army; Vice Chief of Staff of the Army; Senior Coalition Commander in Iraq; Director of the Joint Staff; Director of Strategic Plans and Policy
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Ambassador to the United Kingdom; Director of United States Information Agency
George H. W. Bush Oral History Project
Secretary of Homeland Security; Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Assistant U.S. Attorney General for the Criminal Division
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Christopher: Secretary of State; Talbott: Ambassador-at-Large to the former Soviet Republics (or New Independent States) and Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001)
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Secretary of the Interior
Ronald Reagan Oral History Project
Kennedy supporter; former Postmaster
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
White House Counsel; Foreign Policy Advisor to Edward Kennedy and Madeline Albright
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
United States Ambassador to Syria, Pakistan, and Iraq
George W. Bush Oral History Project
Senator, Iowa; staffer for Edward Kennedy; friend
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Senator, Iowa; staffer for Edward Kennedy; friend
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Senator, Iowa; Legislative Assistant to Edward Kennedy; friend
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Personal Secretary to the President
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Member of Council of Economic Advisers and National Economic Council
Bill Clinton Presidential History Project
Communications Director for Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Senator, Missouri; US Permanent Representative to United Nations
Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
Governor of Indiana; Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
George W. Bush Oral History Project