Host Michel Martin speaks with legal and policy veteran Peter Edelman. Edelman was a legislative assistant to the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and also worked with the Clinton administration. He's the ...

In my new Confirmation Tales post—“Peter Edelman Leaks the News of His Impending D.C. Circuit Nomination: And ignites a campaign against himself”—I recount Bill Clinton’s abortive nomination of his ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An oral history consisting of a single digital video recording (2018.78.8.1). It was collected as part of the Poor People’s Campaign Interviews.

In 1996, Edelman resigned from the Clinton administration in protest against the president’s signing welfare reform legislation. Here, the Georgetown University law professor sharply criticizes the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Peter B. Edelman is a Professor for the Georgetown University Law Center with 28 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1988 Forum as a Legislative ...

I've lived long enough to understand that the differences among Americans are often greatly exaggerated -- that deep down we are a lot more alike than we are different. This truth extends to politics ...

Thirty-nine years ago, Peter Edelman was in Nebraska assisting Sen. Robert F. Kennedy as he won this state’s Democratic presidential primary election. Edelman will return to the state this week to ...

Like a lot of people who worked for the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Peter Edelman still has strong, reverent feelings for the man, more than 50 years after he was assassinated. “I think about him ...

When Bill Clinton signed the 1996 welfare reform bill, it seemed that he had hammered the last nail in the coffin of American liberalism. Since the New Deal, welfare had been an entitlement, a ...

Those walking by Columbia Station, a restaurant and live jazz venue in Adams Morgan, will likely be lured inside by the smooth sounds of the Peter Edelman Trio performing there on Sunday evenings.