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Carol Browner

...The Senate, it's the reverse. Besides Senator Kennedy and healthcare, are there other reason...

Joe Solmonese

...received an award that we named after Senator Kennedy . How many staff members were involve...
...or John [Robert] Lewis, or members of Senator Kennedy 's staff. It was such a deepl...

David Axelrod

...say. You wrote that by 1968, Bobby [Robert F.] Kennedy had emerged as “the voice of outrage o...
...written that by 1968, Bobby Kennedy had emerged as “the voice of outrage o...
...a little bit of both. First of all, Bobby Kennedy was, to me, maybe the most interestin...
...So it was a challenge to Johnson. But Bobby Kennedy , he was challenging both institution...
...a different kind of personality than Bobby Kennedy . But we did create the kind o...

...kind of movement in our campaign that Bobby Kennedy was about the business of creating i...
...about a potential run, did you look to Bobby Kennedy 's campaign for ideas—guaranteed jobs...
...we felt in 1968, when I was a kid and Bobby Kennedy was running, and that is what I think ...
...those campaigns. How do you think Bobby Kennedy did that? How do you think he mad...
...scenes I remember in my lifetime was Bobby Kennedy in Indianapolis the night that Marti...
...for president, much in the tradition of Bobby Kennedy , wasn't just a challenge to th...
...And I saw Greenfield, who wrote some of Robert Kennedy 's speeches—he was a young speechwrite...
...was a young speechwriter for Robert Kennedy —I saw him turn to Stephanopoulos, an...
...The crowds were enormous. I mentioned Robert Kennedy earlier; it was reminiscent of Rober...
...Kennedy earlier; it was reminiscent of Robert Kennedy 's trip to Africa forty years earlier...
...for us. Can I ask, did you think about Bobby Kennedy and 1968 that night? Well, I don'...
...really most moved as a young boy by Bobby Kennedy 's campaign for president. And I said...
...hoped for when I talked to him about Bobby Kennedy forty years earlier. That was a joyfu...
...quoted a letter he had received from Senator Kennedy , in which Senator Kennedy calle...
...received from Senator Kennedy, in which Senator Kennedy called healthcare “the great unfinishe...
...of course, to Scott Brown's election to Senator Kennedy 's seat in Massachusetts, whic...
...Jeff Greenfield, who had been a Bobby [Robert F.] Kennedy speechwriter, now working for eithe...
...race, some of the idealism of Bobby Kennedy . I said to Robert, as we wer...

Gregory Craig

...will have the date that he spoke to the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award [Ceremony, Novembe...
...heard anything like that since Bobby [ Robert F. Kennedy ].” George was very close to Bobb...
...F. Kennedy].” George was very close to Bobby Kennedy . And George mentioned it first, tha...
...and I, at the Obama speech at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Thereafter, I sa...
...that no other candidate, next to Bobby Kennedy , I'd ever seen; and that he coul...

...pretty well because I'd done it for Senator Kennedy . I'd been the policy planning guy fo...
...in an African American electorate. Senator Kennedy knew that I was very much involved i...
...something done, they would always go to Senator Kennedy . And I knew a lot of them from th...
...of them from the South Africa work. So Senator Kennedy knew that I was familiar with the civi...
...we have touched on your contacts with Senator Kennedy , and he eventually endorses Obama fo...
...speeches. And I had never talked with Senator Kennedy directly about it, because I did no...
...and that she saw my letter to Senator Kennedy and thought that it was a terrifi...
...that it had made a huge impact on Senator Kennedy , and how did I think was the best wa...
...the judgment as to how best to use—if Senator Kennedy and you are going to endorse Barac...
...speech. It was maybe two days before Senator Kennedy gave the speech, but the team was i...
...time, directly, one on one, I talked to Senator Kennedy , was after we'd had a couple of phon...

Felicia Escobar Carrillo

...I think about what Senator McCain and Senator Kennedy were able to broker and the people the...

Melody Barnes

...and we're all seated. I remember seeing Senator Kennedy , who is my former boss, who I jus...
...program that ultimately was named for Senator Kennedy . There were a number of pieces o...
...significant legislative expertise. Senator Kennedy dies; there's a special election. ...
...expected—particularly having worked for Senator Kennedy , who had a large staff, and what h...
...wanted to share. Then I remember when Senator Kennedy died, I was in a meeting, and he cam...

...healthcare costs, and all the work that Senator Kennedy —I mean, it's like all of that added u...
...was that I got—well, when I worked for Senator Kennedy , Yo-Yo Ma's son, Nicholas Ma, was on...
...Ma, was one of our interns. Yo-Yo and Senator Kennedy were very famous friends, wonderfu...

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