By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
“A successfull man is who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at us.” — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
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