Quotes by David Pietrusza

“Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal”

“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.”

“No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.”

“JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.”

“In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK "was drawing strength from his vulnerability.”

“Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. Hubert Humphrey”

“John F. Kennedy "is, in reality, a deeply serious man, reflective in his mental habits, historically minded, and given to seeing men and nations and events in the sobering context that history prov...”

“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 h...”

“As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. Arthur Schlesinger”

“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".”

“JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.”

“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...”

“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.”

“For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.”

“Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White”

“Jack Kennedy protected a mature and presidential image – tough, yet not unduly combative.”

“What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin”

“Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey”