Inside the Clinton White House

An Oral History

Russell L. Riley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

464 Seiten

2016
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-060546-9 (ISBN)

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In the decade after Bill Clinton left the White House, scores of his closest aides recorded interviews with the University of Virginia's Presidential Oral History Program. The contents of these interviews are published for the first time in this volume.

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.

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.

Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface
Part I: Beginnings
Chapter 1: The Man Who Would be President: Prelude to the White House
Chapter 2: The Decision
Chapter 3: The Announcement & Three Georgetown Speeches
Chapter 4: Staffing the Campaign
Chapter 5: The New Hampshire Primary: Vertigo
Chapter 6: Competitors, Issues & Style
Chapter 7: Getting Ready for the General Election: The Manhattan Project and Choosing Gore
Chapter 8: The Democratic National Convention and the Bus Tour
Chapter 9: The General Election Campaign-Clinton vs. George H. W. Bush
Chapter 10: The View from the Other Side
Chapter 11: The Transition to Governing

Part II: Domestic and Economic Policy
Chapter 12: Out of the Gate: Deciding on What to Do First
Chapter 13: The 1993 Budget and the Stimulus Package
Chapter 14: NAFTA
Chapter 15: Healthcare
Chapter 16: Welfare Reform
Chapter 17: On Other Domestic and Economic Issues

Part III: Foreign Policy
Chapter 18: A New Foreign Policy for a New World Order
Chapter 19: Haiti
Chapter 20: Africa
Chapter 21: The Balkans
Chapter 22: Northern Ireland
Chapter 23: Other Foreign Policy Issues
Chapter 24: Clinton with Foreign Leaders

Part IV: Politics and the Clinton White House
Chapter 25: Inside the Washington Community
Chapter 26: Republican Revolution and Recovery
Chapter 27: The Reelection and Productive Middle Years, 1996-97
Chapter 28: Scandals-and Impeachment

Part V: People
Chapter 29: Clinton's Intellect
Chapter 30: Clinton's Political Talents and Operating Style
Chapter 31: The Man Who Was President
Chapter 32: Gore
Chapter 33: Hillary
Chapter 34: Staff
Chapter 35: Stories

Part VI: Conclusion
Chapter 36: Observations on the Clinton Legacy: "A Tale of Two Presidencies"

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Oral History Series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 236 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-060546-4 / 0190605464
ISBN-13	978-0-19-060546-9 / 9780190605469
Zustand	Neuware