“It was one of the great myths of that time that foreign policy was this pure and uncontaminated area which was never touched by domestic politics, and that domestic politics ended at the water’s edge. The truth, in sharp contrast,… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Theodore Sorensen wrote for [Robert Kennedy's 1968] announcement speech: “At stake is not simply the leadership of our party, and even our own country, it is our right to the moral leadership of this planet.” The sentence absolutely appalled all the younger Robert Kennedy advisers, who felt it smacked of just the kind of attitude which had gotten us into… — David Halberstam Copy Share
“For there was no doubt in Bundy’s mind about his ability to handle... the world. The job was not just a happenstance thing; he had, literally and figuratively, been bred for it, or failing this, Secretary of State. He was the brightest light in that glittering constellation around the President, for if those years had any central theme, if there… — David Halberstam Copy Share
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing” — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Day after day we read about them, each new man more brilliant than the last. They were not just an all-star first team, but… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past. — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“The good reporters of that era, those who were well educated and who were enlightened themselves and worked for enlightened organizations, liked the Kennedys… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.” — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
