Robert Dallek

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

— Robert Dallek

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it,…

— Robert Dallek

F.D.R. had an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions in 1933 when he drove 15 major bills through the Congress, and super majorities…

— Robert Dallek

John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon…

— Robert Dallek

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

— Robert Dallek

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

— Robert Dallek

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

Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country…

— Robert Dallek

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

The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.

— Robert Dallek

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

A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold…

— Robert Dallek

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

— Robert Dallek

The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United…

— Robert Dallek

Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To…

— Robert Dallek

Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.

— Robert Dallek

The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because…

— Robert Dallek

Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example…

— Robert Dallek

Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the…

— Robert Dallek

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

— Robert Dallek

Historians evaluating George W. Bush's first term will focus on foreign policy and, most of all, 9/11. I think they will criticize…

— Robert Dallek

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

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

— Robert Dallek

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic…

— Robert Dallek