ML.2014.011
This series contains 20 interview transcripts and one box of records pertaining to the production of a documentary film entitled, James A. Baker, III- A Statesman's Story. The film's purpose was to document the role of public service and statesmanship through the example of James A. Baker III's career and serve as a marketing film for Baker's 1996 presidential bid. In addition, there were discussions between Andrew Ling and PBS to use the film as a pilot for a television series on public service leadership. Production records include correspondence, budget spreadsheets, scripts, and photocopied articles and essays.
The interviews with government officials, politicians, and various other individuals were conducted mostly during July of 1994 in the Washington D.C area. Topics addressed include the role of public service and statesmanship, the interviewees' introduction to government work, and the perception of tasks related to public service. The interviews also discuss Baker's role and contributions to historical events including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Two Plus Four Agreement for the re-unification of Germany, Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War, and the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.
The transcripts in this series are arranged alphabetically by interviewee's last name. The production records are arranged in their original order as received from the donor.
This series is open for research use. Original audio and video files exist but are restricted.
This collection consists of PDF files. Researchers are responsible for meeting the technical requirements needed to access these materials, including any and all hardware and software.
This series contains 20 interview transcripts and one box of records pertaining to the production of a documentary film entitled, James A. Baker, III- A Statesman's Story. The film's purpose was to document the role of public service and statesmanship through the example of James A. Baker III's career and serve as a marketing film for Baker's 1996 presidential bid. In addition, there were discussions between Andrew Ling and PBS to use the film as a pilot for a television series on public service leadership. Production records include correspondence, budget spreadsheets, scripts, and photocopied articles and essays. The interviews with government officials, politicians, and various other individuals were conducted mostly during July of 1994 in the Washington D.C area. Topics addressed include the role of public service and statesmanship, the interviewees' introduction to government work, and the perception of tasks related to public service. The interviews also discuss Baker's role and contributions to historical events including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Two Plus Four Agreement for the re-unification of Germany, Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War, and the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.
The Leadership Documentary Project was created by PS Productions, a five-person multi-media production company that included Executive Producer Andrew M. Ling, Producer and Director Townley Patton, and PS Communication's director Phil Schwenk. In addition to the existing PS Production team, Mark Higbie was hired as Associate Producer and Coordinator, David Paton as the writer, and Jose A. Salgado as a videographer.
The documentary was the company's first major production and had the approval of James A. Baker III, a close friend of Townley Paton's father, David Paton '52.
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Interview with James A. Baker III; Destruction of the Berlin Wall; Two Plus Four Mechanism; Frank Elbe; Hans Dietrich; Bob Zoellick; NATO; Eduard Shevardnadze; President Gorbachev; Soviet Union; Germany reunification; North Atlantic Alliance; Jackson Hole; Kremlin Hardliners; Cold War; North Atlantic Alliance; NAFTA; GATT; Brezhnev Doctrine; Gulf War; State Department Operations Center; Mongolia; Assad; Saddam Hussein; Larry Eagleburger
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Interview with Prince Bandar bin Sultan; Chief of Staff James baker; AWACS; Diplomacy; Desert Shield; Desert Storm; President Bush; King Fahd; Damascus; King Abdulaziz; Yalta Conference; President Roosevelt; Elizabeth Winston; Madrid Peace Conference; Saddam Hussein; Saudi Arabia
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Interview with Maria Bartlett; Sioni Cathedral; Abanotubani Mosque; Dezelter Bazaar; Georgia; Mr. Shevardnadze; Economic Aid; Russia; Georgian Culture
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Interview with George H.W. Bush; Friendship with Jimmy Baker; Dick Cheney; Brent Scowcroft; Colin Powell; Bob Gates; Condoleezza Rice; CIA; Bob Zoellick
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Interview with Andrew Carpendale; Speechwriter; Diplomacy; Tariq Aziz; Iraq Foreign Minister; Leadership; Diplomacy; Karen Jackson; Karen Grooms; Bill Burns; End of the Cold War; Eduard Shervardnadze; Soviet Union; Yitzhak Shamir; Israel; Congress; NATO; Margaret Tutwiler; Janet Mullins; Dennis Ross; Bob Zoellick; Bob Kimmitt; German Unification; Hans-Dietrich Genscher; Four Plus Twos; Two Plus Fours; Sergey Tarasenko; Irkutsk; Moscow; Peter Househorn; CNN; Saddam Hussein; Ta'if, Saudi Arabia; Andy Lang; Madrid Peace Conference
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interview with Richard B. Cheney; President Ford; Statesman vs Politician; Desert Storm Operations; Department of Defense;National Security Advisor; Brent Scowcroft; Director of the CIA; George Bush; Henry Kissinger; Jim Schlesinger; Bill Rogers; Saudi Arabia; Kuwait; General Schwarzkopf; Moscow; Washington; President Gorbachev; Condoleezza Rice; Gulf War; General McPeak, the Air Force Chief of Staff; Colin Powell
Interview with Clement Conger; Deputy Chief of Protocol; Christian Herter; Henrietta Von Winterthur; American Decorative; Tourists; President Clinton; Warren Christopher; Secretary of State; WHite House; State Department; White House Reception; American Political Cultural System; Secretary of State Dulles; John Foster Dulles; Shah and Empress of Iran; Secretary of State George Shultz; American Culture; Secretary of State Rusk; American Diplomacy; John Quincy Adams State Drawing Room
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Interview with Lawrence S. Eagleburger; University of Wisconsin; University of Virginia; Foreign Service Exam; Kuwait/Iraq Crisis; Panama; Noriega; German Reunification; Soviet Union; Eastern Europe
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Interview with Hans-Dietrich Genscher; Berlin Wall; Foreign Secretary Hurt; Soviet Union; Maggie Thatcher; Summit in Cancun; Chancellor Schmidt; NATO; Chief of Staff; Chancellor Kohl; Warsaw Pact; Eduard Shevardnadze; Jim Baker; Frank Elbe; CSCE Summit; President Carter; President Reagan; North Atlantic Declaration
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Interview with Richard N. Haass; Vietnam; Civil Rights; Jim Baker; George Bush; Career in Public Service; Margaret Thatcher; George Shultz; Germany; NATO; Soviet Union; Chancellor Kohl; Dennis Ross; Bob Zoellick; Syrian Leaders; Middle East; Madrid; Prime Minister Shamir; Israel; President Bush; Bob Gates; Saddam Hussein; Gulf Crisis; Bill Clinton; Lawrence Eagleburger; Brent Scowcroft; The Washington Post; Afghanistan; Dick Cheney; Ed Djerejian; Joe Barnes; Madrid Peace Conference; Gulf Crisis
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Interview with Robert M. Kimmitt; Public Service; Private Sector; UN Security Council; National Security Council; State Department; Eduard Shevardnadze; Hans-Dietrich Genscher; Douglas Hurd; Secretary of the Treasury; NATO; Germany; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Nicaragua; Dick Cheney; George Bush; Gulf War; CNN
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Interview with Ceci Cole McInturff; Dan Rather; CBS; Journalism; Republican Campaigns; Jim Baker; George Bush; David Keane; George Bush 1979 Presidential Campaign; Romania; CNN International; Communism; Freedom of Press
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Interview with Daniel P. Moynihan; Gorbachev UN Speech December 1988; President Ford's Ambassador to the United Nations; Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Alan Greenspan; Marshall Plan
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Interview with Bill Plante; CBS; Edward R. Murrow; Media; Clinton Administration; Middle East; George Bush; Cold War; Nursultan Nazarbayev; Eagleburger; Diplomacy
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Interview with Condoleezza Rice: Statesmanship; Shevardnadze; National Security Council; Brent Scowcroft; Dennis Ross; Destruction of the Berlin Wall; German Unification; NATO; President Bush; Richard Haass's Book Power of Persuasion; Madrid Peace Conference; Gorbachev; Gulf War
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Interview with John F.W Rogers; Assistant to the President of Management; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management; Under Secretary of State for Management; David Gergen; James Carville; Margaret Tutwiler
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Interview with Dennis Ross; Civil Rights Movement; Vietnam War; US Strategy; Political Strategy; Policy; Madrid Conference; Shevardnadze; Sergei Tarasenko; Margaret Tutwiler; US-Soviet Relations; Arab-Israeli Issues; START Agreement; Egyptian-Israeli Agreement; Middle East; NATO; Two Plus Four Plan; Roger George; Bob Zoellick; Gorbachev; Andrew Carpendale; Richard Wright
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Interview with Eduard Shevardnadze; Two Plus Four Negotiations; Unifications of Germany; Gorbachev; German Democratic Republic; Gulf War; Invasion of Kuwait; Soviet Union; Iraq; Moscow; Aleksey Tolstoy Mansion; UN Security Council; NATO; Georgia
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Interview with Angela E. Stent; Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University; Sovietologist; Mikhail Gorbachev; Cold War; Unification of Germany; Great Statesman; Franklin Roosevelt; Winston Churchill; Richard Nixon; People's Republic of China; NATO; Communism; Madrid Peace Conference
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Interview with Robert S. Strauss; Ambassador for Russia; Gorbachev; Margaret Tutwiler; Larry Eagleburger; Kazakhstan; John Connally; Soviet Union; Madrid Peace Conference; Bush Administration; Political Consensus
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Interview with Robert B. Zoellick; Joe Califano; Coup in Thailand; Dennis Ross; Gorbachev; Reunification of Germany; Two Plus Four Process; Versailles Treaty; Soviet Union; NATO; Margaret Thatcher; Geoffrey Howe; German Foreign Minister Genscher; Bob Kimmitt; Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation