American - Soldier | December 23, 1923 - July 5, 2005
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
James Stockdale
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So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.
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Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.
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The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.
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There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
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They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
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This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.
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Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.
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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
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We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.
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Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
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