Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year,… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges.… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share
During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman… — Robert Dallek Copy Share
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. — Robert Dallek Copy Share
When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share
In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure. — Robert Dallek Copy Share
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman. — Robert Dallek Copy Share
For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp… — Robert Dallek Copy Share
The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt… — Robert Dallek Copy Share
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country… — Robert Dallek Copy Share
As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely… — Robert Dallek Copy Share
I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president. — Robert Dallek Copy Share
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated. — Robert Dallek Copy Share
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