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• What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it,…
• It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential…
• ... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land…
• Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.
• Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed…
• Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
• The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
• Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in…
• The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was…
• True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have their flaws, but we are…
• Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.
• Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

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