American Quote by Peyton Reed

Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of…

— Robert Dallek

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

— George Smathers

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and…

— Ben Bradlee

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised…

— Michael Korda

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the…

— Hugh Sidey

JFK [John F. Kennedy] was young, glamorous, Camelot, funny, engaging. Congress loved him.

— Rush Limbaugh

“For him (JFK) as he imagined of the British aristocracy, policies were less important than character traits such as dignity, courage, and honor. They…

— Scott Farris

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an…

— Kitty Kelley

Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories.…

— Austin Grossman

Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would…

— Thomas Mallon

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy.…

— James Ellroy

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

— Robert Dallek