Commission Quote by Lindy Boggs

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go…

— Lindy Boggs

“The second most powerful man in the country.” All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking “nothing jobs” and making them into something—something big.…

— Robert A. Caro

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. —Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide…

— Oliver Benjamin

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.

— Clint Hill

“The commission also confronted one of the strangest and most nettlesome phrases in COG operations—a seemingly unnecessary aside in the language guiding presidential succession…

— Garrett M. Graff

“As several historians have pointed out, it would have made little sense for Fidel to do something that would risk having his country invaded…

— Lamar Waldron

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has…

— Ron Fournier

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

— McGeorge Bundy

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

— Douglas Adams

In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.

— Donald Verrilli Jr

“Jimmy Carter is not the President of the United States. The Trilateral Commission is the President of the United States; I represent the Trilateral…

— Henry Ass-Kissinger

Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come…

— Lindy Boggs