If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator. — 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
Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle… — 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
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Herbert Hoover was a man of genuine, fine character, but he lacked practical political sense. And he couldn't bend and shift and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal eased but did not end the country's economic ills, a trio of leftist radicals -… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of… — 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
Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a… — 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
As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
