All Robert Dallek Quotes
- Access to presidential materials should be as wide as possible. Access
- The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor - represented an… Act
- Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year, Kennedy comes out… All
- As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little… Accomplishments
- Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to… Affairs
- George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. Abraham
- Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising… Bankers
- Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers. Blog
- John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis. Began
- The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and… Atlantic
- Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at… Clearly
- What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union. Soviet
- What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United… Abolish
- During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman an… Almost Every
- How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973. From
- I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union. China
- F.D.R. had an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions in 1933 when he drove 15 major bills through the Congress, and super majorities in the House… Bills
- Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always… All
- Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate. Commitment
- From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the… Action
- In counterfactual history, nothing is certain. Certain
- William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his… April
- The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because if the extent… Alive