this work is based certainly on the miller center transcripts and fred mcclure s transcript is particularly useful. but it s also based on other primary and secondary resources, including my own interviews with members of congress, congressional staffers and other knowledgeable folks that i conducted during the bush administration. if the spirit of full disclosure i shouldei a congressional scholar, so my paper probably does have a kind of congressional skew of perspective. now, i argue here and elsewhere that presidential legislative success, while certainly in part a function of the president s and his administration s political skill is determined much more by the context in and which he prits. operates. in other words, how the president plays his cards does make a difference, but the hand he is dealt is more important. what was bush s hand? i m arguing it was not really a hand conducive to domestic policy making on a heroic scale. what character? what specifically. well,
movement became almost eliminated and the present army is primarily voluntary. because parents were not letting their sons go into a war, conflict, that they thoroughly disagreed with. and so they were just boycotting the war itself and that was primarily the kent college operation. that s just my suggestion and memories that i carry with me at age 92. i think you re talking about the jackson state shootings which happened about a week or so later.athas been unfairly overlooked in the aftermath of kent. i know at the annual commemorations at kent yeah, two students were killed at jackson. at kent, they always make a point of including jackson state. it s interesting you talked about thank you. lady in the second row. thank you. my first question is to kelly. did oral histories include reactions of faculty for and against progressive reforms, and rosalee, i was looking at your statistics and the number of students enrolled at rutgers didn t seem that many. why do you
he knows if he likes chess or if he likes to play tennis. that is something you cannot bottle or sell. it was vintage george bush. it helped him in domestic policy. i know i m going on too long. i have to tell you one funny story. that is relating to the labor unions. valencia was not president of poland but solidard. came to the white house and it was reemotional for him. i rode with him in the motorcade. when he got through the southeast gate and looked at the white house, this man started to cry. i mean it was just quite extraordinary. we went in and had a reception that included all of the old line labor leaders. the afl-cio people as well as the buildings, trades. we were having a very good time. the state dining room. it s not state up for state dinners had this very, very long oval table and you fill it with food. i don t mean to stereotype labor leaders, but this very big labor leader from pittsburgh decided to lean against the table. he leaned against the table and i
who are by default paying full tuition. so i think we need to keep all these things in mind. and while i m certainly being critical, i think it s just asking that we don t forget, that we don t just wear this crown of diversity saying we re the most in the nation without remembering that there is still a lot of work to be done about. we have time for one more question.. we have time for one more question. my question is no rosalie. i was struck by one of the slides that you showed that said rutgers white oasis. and it made me think of public space. and i wonder what role did the community play, similar to the last one, but what role did the community play and were there tensions because of the amount of public space that the university held in the neighborhood? absolutely. that s a great question and i think we see these things with columbia university and pretty much anytime an urban campus is built because in order to create that space, they re essentially knocking
inauguration. bush cultivated both members of congress and he would, when necessary, compromise, on legislation on the substance of legislation with democrats. in fact, he did a lot of cultivating, which was not even second nature. first nature. and of necessity, he did a lot of compromising. and to the question arises when you look at this element of strategy is whether bush completely understood how much congress had changed. he did seem to have expected personal friendships and the cultivation of members to payoff in support much more than they actually did. well, the second strategy is the veto. after all, the veto is the president s ultimate constitutional weapon. bush used the veto and used the veto threat well with success. i have a bit of analysis of both in the paper. too much to talk about here. well, as you all know now, if you didn t before, bush had only one veto overridden. i shall also say that veto threats were used quite effectively. veto threats generally di