Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for… — 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 Librarian of Congress, the poet Archibald MacLeish, who headed the Office of Facts and Figures, Davis believed that truth was the smartest type of propaganda. This was in stark contrast to the Axis nations, which banned… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share
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
