David Halberstam

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities…

— David Halberstam

“Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.”

— David Halberstam

“he [Robert Lovett] knew that those whose names were always in print, who were always on the radio and television, were there…

— David Halberstam

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact…

— David Halberstam

“Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something…

— David Halberstam

“It was only natural that the intellectuals who questioned the necessity of American purpose did not rush from Cambridge and New Haven…

— David Halberstam

There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as…

— David Halberstam

“The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with.…

— David Halberstam

“The Marshall Plan had stopped the Communists, had brought the European nations back from destruction and decay, had performed an economic miracle;…

— David Halberstam

“The Patriots had picked Brady in the sixth round, and he soon turned out to be one of the two or three…

— David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the…

— David Halberstam

“We seemed about to enter an Olympian age in this country, brains and intellect harnessed to great force, the better to define…

— David Halberstam

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional…

— David Halberstam

“It was against this backdrop that the great fortunes were made, fortunes which allowed the first families to dominate the society of…

— David Halberstam

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

— David Halberstam

“It was one of the great myths of that time that foreign policy was this pure and uncontaminated area which was never…

— David Halberstam

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

— David Halberstam

“There was, I found, always more to learn.”

— David Halberstam

“Advertising,” he wrote, “now compares with such long-standing institutions as the school and the church in the magnitude of its social influence.…

— David Halberstam

“It was like that afore you got here, it's like that now, and it's going to be like that when you and…

— David Halberstam

Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is]…

— David Halberstam

“Those years [as the war progressed] would show, in the American system, how when a question of the use of force arose…

— David Halberstam

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

— David Halberstam

“Had I been given The [Pentagon] Papers themselves that early, I would probably have become a prisoner of them—as it was, I…

— David Halberstam

“No son of mine is going to be a goddamn liberal, Kennedy interjected. Now, now Joe, Luce answered, of course he’s got…

— David Halberstam