Robert Dallek Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Dallek
Robert Dallek Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.
In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.
There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.
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.
It's always valuable for someone running for president ... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.
Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate.
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
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.
How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems ... spastic colitis.
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.