The Presidency / Presidential Oral Histories

Gerald Ford presidential oral history now available

The Miller Center's first presidential oral history project is open to the public

President
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Condoleezza Rice: National Security Advisor; Secretary of State

John Bellinger: State Department Legal Advisor

Eliot Cohen: State Department Counselor

Daniel Fried: Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs

Jendayi Frazer: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
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Donald Rumsfeld: Secretary of Defense

Victoria Clarke: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs

Lawrence Di Rita: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs

Richard Myers: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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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
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President, Sinn Féin Party
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President, Sinn Féin Party
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Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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Prime Minister (Taoiseach) of Ireland
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Ireland's foreign minister
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President of Finland
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Secretary of State
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Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
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Deputy Secretary of Treasury
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Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation/Health at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
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Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget
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Assistant to the President for Policy Development
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Founder and president of the Alliance for Justice
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Assistant to the President for Political Affairs
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Senate Majority Leader; White House Chief of Staff
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White House Chief of Staff; Secretary of the Treasury
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White House Chief of Staff; Secretary of State
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White House Chief of Staff; Secretary of State
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Political and Legal Consultant and Family Friend
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Director of Speechwriting
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Staffer for Edward Kennedy
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Assistant Attorney General; Deputy Attorney General; Attorney General
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U.S. Trade Representative
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White House Communications Director, Counselor to the President
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Secretary to the Cabinet; Assistant to the President; Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff
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Staffer for Edward Kennedy
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Staffer for Edward Kennedy
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Staff Director, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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Deputy Press Secretary to First Lady Barbara Bush; Chief of Staff to George H. W. Bush in his retirement
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Professor, Harvard University; president of Americans for Democratic Action
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Attorney General
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Legal advisor to the National Security Council
Legal advisor to the State Department
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Legal advisor to the National Security Council
Legal advisor to the State Department
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Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; National Security Advisor
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Secretary of Agriculture
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Staffer for Edward Kennedy
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Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; member of Council of Economic Advisers
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National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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Assistant to the President
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Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
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Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
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Secretary of Health and Human Services
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Assistant to Staff Secretary; Staff Secretary
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Director of Legislative Affairs
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Presidential Envoy to Iraq; Chief Executive Administrator of the Coalitional Provisional Authority
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Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
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Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
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Deputy Assistant to the President; Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council; Assistant to the President; Director of the USA Freedom Corps
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Journalist, White House Press Corps
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Senator, Massachusetts
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Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
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Governor of Arkansas (1971-75); U.S. Senator
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Chief of Staff to Edward Kennedy; President of CBS News
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Chief of Staff to Edward Kennedy; President of CBS News
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Chief of Staff to Robert Dole; Senate Finance Committee Aid
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Senator, West Virginia
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Political Pollster
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Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, 1977–79
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Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
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Staffer for Edward Kennedy
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President of Brazil, 1995-2003
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Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Secretary of Defense
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Deputy Assistant for Domestic Affairs and Policy
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President of the United States
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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
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Ambassador to the United Kingdom; Director of United States Information Agency
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Secretary of Labor
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Secretary of Defense
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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
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Prime Minister of Canada
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Christopher: Secretary of State; Talbott: Ambassador-at-Large to the former Soviet Republics (or New Independent States) and Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001)
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Secretary of the Interior
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Friend of Edward Kennedy
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Reporter, The New York Times
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Senator, Mississippi
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Kennedy supporter; former Postmaster
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White House Counsel; Foreign Policy Advisor to Edward Kennedy and Madeline Albright
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United States Ambassador to Syria, Pakistan, and Iraq
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White House Counsel