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No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it. -- David Pietrusza
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Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing. -- David Pietrusza
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It came down to so many factors: an underdog who refused to surrender, a presumed victor who refused to fight, disgruntled Democrats - on the left and right - who, by deserting their party, merely strengthened it, and fearful Republican farmers, who in the end, proved more farmer than Republican. -- David Pietrusza
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Every presidential nominee says his vice president will be given a serious, important role in his new administration. But it almost never materializes. A strong, totally self-centered politician like Tom Dewey sharing his hard-won power with a vice president? Don't count on it.' - David Brinkley -- David Pietrusza
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In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases. -- David Pietrusza
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Jack had an actor's control." Chuck Spalding -- David Pietrusza
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It involves no disrespect for Mrs. Truman to say that her daughter gets a bigger hand than she does,' observed Richard Rovere. 'This country may be run by and for mothers, but its goddesses are daughters. Margaret's entrance comes closer than anything else to bringing down the house. -- David Pietrusza
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JFK apparently felt genuine sympathy for his 1960 presidential opponent Richard Nixon. He felt that, with Nixon's frequent shifts in political philosophy and reinventions, he must have to decide which Nixon he will be at each stop. This, Kennedy reasoned, must be exhausting. -- David Pietrusza
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The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha". -- David Pietrusza
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Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue. -- David Pietrusza
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TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk. -- David Pietrusza
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The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt. -- David Pietrusza
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Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt. -- David Pietrusza
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Harry S Truman despised settled conventions. -- David Pietrusza
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Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred. -- David Pietrusza
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To Dewey, if brevity was the soul of wit, stagecraft was the very center of politics. -- David Pietrusza
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Losers break the rules. There's no point in obeying them because if you obey the unwritten rules of civility, you're going to lose anyway. So why not just do what you can?' - Zachary Karabell -- David Pietrusza
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Never far removed from the progressive consciousness was a question that was never easily answered: of what value was it to punish offending Democrats, if one merely replaced them with infinitely more retrograde Republicans? -- David Pietrusza
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For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but. -- David Pietrusza
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While JFK had made the sale on a political level, he had not yet completed it on an emotional one. -- David Pietrusza
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John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question. -- David Pietrusza
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Presidential campaign observer Teddy White on the second Kennedy-Nixon debate in which the candidates spoke from separate television studios: It was as if, separated by comments from his adversary, Richard Nixon was more at ease and could speak directly to the nation that lay between them. -- David Pietrusza
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JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap. -- David Pietrusza
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Wednesday's glory had become Thursday's ashes. -- David Pietrusza
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Reporters heard words but not poetry, saw old politicians but not new heroes. -- David Pietrusza
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Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness, -- David Pietrusza
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JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him. -- David Pietrusza
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Eisenhower on LBJ: He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility. -- David Pietrusza
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Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one. -- David Pietrusza
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Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation. -- David Pietrusza
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In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK was drawing strength from his vulnerability. -- David Pietrusza
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But even a wonderful soloist needs a song. Even a pitch-perfect voice needs a message. -- David Pietrusza
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Yet Barkley drew back. Perhaps he, like Harry Truman, knew that the quiet power of incumbency easily overcomes the noise of crowds and bands. -- David Pietrusza
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Truman makes friends without influencing people,' noted Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 'Dewey influences people without making friends. -- David Pietrusza
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TR on using ex<>trong>trtrong>amarital accusations against Wilson: It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk. -- David Pietrusza