Political Quotes by Robert Dallek

9 Political quotes by Robert Dallek

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Dallek’s scholarly reflections on American presidents and policy are packed into nine brief excerpts, offering a concise scholarly perspective.

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Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

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Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of…

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When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation…

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Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a…

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Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured…

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Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation…

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The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare…

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Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it…

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Herbert Hoover was a man of genuine, fine character, but he lacked practical political sense. And he couldn't bend and shift and…

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Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

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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…

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During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

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Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

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For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp…

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The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt…

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For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country…

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As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely…

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Access to presidential materials should be as wide as possible.

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I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.

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By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.

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