“Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after Cronkite had mastered the art of communicating news on television nightly without ever becoming an irritant.” — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
“The popular director of OWI was Elmer Davis, an ex-CBS radioman with an admiration for the wire services and Murrow. Working closely with the… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
“Conservation,” Pinchot famously wrote, “means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.” — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
