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James Stockdale
American
Soldier
Born:
Dec 23
,
1923
Died:
Jul 5
,
2005
About
First
Life
Man
Time
You
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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
James Stockdale
Physics
Down
Head
Cal
Department
Shout
Tech
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
James Stockdale
Fighter
Commanding
Squadron
Officer
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
James Stockdale
Life
Politics
Conversation
My Life
Single
About
Never
Had
Still
Perot
Ross Perot
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.
James Stockdale
War
Book
Words
Doubt
White
White House
Later
Says
Point
Had
He
Nobody
House
Were
Any
Going
Mean
Asia
Then
There And Then
Many
Bomb
Right
Alex
I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.
James Stockdale
Would
Something
Boss
Take
Attention
Demanded
Like
Came
Maybe
Just
Mean
Might
Should
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.
James Stockdale
King
First
President
Telephone
Had
He
Since
First Of All
Well
Call
Becoming
Perot
Ballots
Get
Committed
Candidate
Asked
Show
Ross Perot
March
Larry
Larry King
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.
James Stockdale
People
Tough
Say
East
Kind
Some
Guys
Generalize
Known
Were
German
Did
Them
Much
Film
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.
James Stockdale
Me
Business
Papers
Seemed
Seems
Having
Throwback
Like
Schoolboy
Felt
Yeah
Any
Just
Mean
Helpless
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