American - Historian | May 16, 1934 -
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
Robert Dallek
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By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
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There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
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It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.
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At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.
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Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.
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A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
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President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything of significance through Congress.
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After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.
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John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.
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To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston Churchill's powerful exhortations during World War II set a standard he had long admired. Kennedy was hardly unmindful of how important a great inaugural address could be.
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Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had successfully broached the idea that a First Lady could be nearly as much a public figure as her husband.
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