"Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that……" — Nancy Gibbs
"Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One."
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104 Quotes by Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs has 104 quotes on this site.
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For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
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If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.
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Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us…
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If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the…
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Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on…
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You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him…
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Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton…
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Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and…
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Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just…
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In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version…
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You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under…
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More Aides Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even…
— Harry S. Truman
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New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has…
— Daniel Hannan
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One of Governor Romney's aides today on television said that Governor Romney, after he wins the primaries, will be like…
— Rick Santorum
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It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information,…
— Glenn Greenwald
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I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major…
— Gerald Walpin
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[Nowhere was the feeling of bewilderment and betrayal stronger than among Clinton's political allies -- from cabinet members to White…
— Mike McCurry
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Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they…
— Sam Ervin
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I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He…
— Robert Scheer
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I've noticed a facinating phenomenon in my thiry years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelvant to the great…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Reporters covering Bushs second term, under pressure from editors not to use unnamed sources in their stories, started asking their…
— Ari Fleischer
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