Inside the Clinton White House

An Oral History
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-060546-9
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 848 g

The inner life of every White House is veiled in mystery. Only a select few partake in the sensitive discussions of the Oval Office or the casual banter about high policy and low politics conducted over the engine roar of Air Force One. The privilege of the president's confidence depends on the confidentiality of such exchanges while the president's term endures. Inside the Clinton White House, however, provides a front-row seat to that previously unknown history of the 42nd presidency.

In the decade after Bill Clinton left the White House, scores of his political advisors, senior White House staff, and cabinet officials recorded oral history interviews with scholars working with the acclaimed Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. The contents of these interviews are published for the first time in this volume, selected and edited by Russell Riley, co-chair of the Oral History Program.

The portraite of the Clinton presidency provided here is based on some 400 hours of conversations with more than sixty people. These interviews track Bill Clinton's emergence as a national political figure with the New Democrat movement, take the reader inside the hectic 1992 campaign, and then detail the ups and downs of life inside the Clinton White House as experienced by those who were there. Extended sections of the book are devoted to domestic policy (including reforms of the health care and welfare systems), foreign policy (including military interventions in Haiti and the Balkans), politics in the Clinton years (including impeachment), and the key personalities of the time (including chapters on Al Gore and Hillary Rodham Clinton). These candid spoken accounts--history "with the bark off" in Lyndon Johnson's phrase--add color and nuance to our understanding of Bill Clinton and his administration, sometimes confirming and sometimes upending the conventional wisdom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riley, Russell L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Part I: Beginnings

- 1. The Man Who Would be President: Prelude to the White House

- 2. The Decision

- 3. The Announcement and Three Georgetown Speeches

- 4. Staffing the Campaign

- 5. The New Hampshire Primary: Vertigo

- 6. Competitors, Issues and Style

- 7. Getting Ready for the General Election: The Manhattan Project and Choosing Gore

- 8. The Democratic National Convention and the Bus Tour

- 9. The General Election Campaign-Clinton vs. George H. W. Bush

- 10. The View from the Other Side

- 11. The Transition to Governing

- Part II: Domestic and Economic Policy

- 12. Out of the Gate: Deciding on What to Do First

- 13. The 1993 Budget and the Stimulus Package

- 14. NAFTA

- 15. Healthcare

- 16. Welfare Reform

- 17. On Other Domestic and Economic Issues

- Part III: Foreign Policy

- 18. A New Foreign Policy for a New World Order

- 19. Haiti

- 20. Africa

- 21. The Balkans

- 22. Northern Ireland

- 23. Other Foreign Policy Issues

- 24. Clinton with Foreign Leaders

- Part IV: Politics and the Clinton White House

- 25. Inside the Washington Community

- 26. Republican Revolution and Recovery

- 27. The Reelection and Productive Middle Years, 1996-97

- 28. Scandals-and Impeachment

- Part V: People

- 29. Clinton's Intellect

- 30. Clinton's Political Talents and Operating Style

- 31. The Man Who Was President

- 32. Gore

- 33. Hillary

- 34. Staff

- 35. Stories

- Part VI: Conclusion

- 36. Observations on the Clinton Legacy: "A Tale of Two Presidencies"

Über Autor(innen)

Russell L. Riley is Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, where he has conducted nearly 300 oral history interviews with senior officials from every administration since Jimmy Carter's. He is the author and editor of several books on the American presidency, including The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-Keeping from 1831 to 1965 and The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House.