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There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.
— Robert Dallek
Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.
— Robert Dallek
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
— Robert Dallek
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.
— Robert Dallek
JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.
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Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
— Robert Dallek
Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.
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How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.
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There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.
— Robert Dallek
Access to presidential materials should be as wide as possible.
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The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.
— Robert Dallek
It's always valuable for someone running for president ... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.
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The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
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Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
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Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.
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The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
— Robert Dallek
Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.
— Robert Dallek
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
— Robert Dallek
What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.
— Robert Dallek
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Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
— Robert Dallek
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.
— Robert Dallek
Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.
— Robert Dallek
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
— Robert Dallek
With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.
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Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.
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Unity is Obama's theme.
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Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
— Robert Dallek
Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate.
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A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
— Robert Dallek
What's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.
— Robert Dallek
How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.
— Robert Dallek
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems ... spastic colitis.
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Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
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By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
— Robert Dallek
In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.
— Robert Dallek
I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.
— Robert Dallek
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
— Robert Dallek
Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.
— Robert Dallek
They are pretty good at improvising, but God help us if they are given time to think. Dean Atchison
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