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Kennedy Quotes by Robert Dallek
- It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.
- Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
- Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.
- Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.
- I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don…
- For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has…
- John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency.…
- When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places of…
- 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…
- John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.
- I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
- 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…
- 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…
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- The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its… — J. G. Ballard
- In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this… — Lewis Black
- The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the… — Jimmy Carter
- Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now,… — Charles Schumer
- The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in… — Robert Crippen
- Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we… — Bob Dylan
- Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy
- I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice. — Amy Klobuchar
- I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get… — Jim McDermott
- Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good… — Norman Thomas
- My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Wallace Carothers