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As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.
Paul Hoffman
Today
Respect
Advice
Administration
Administrators
Counsel
Had
Concerned
Him
Greatest
Dean
Were
Any
Going
As Far As
Far
Asking
Ever
Recall
But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.
Paul Hoffman
Today
World
Gave
Our
Most
Felt
Priority
Personal
Us
Interests
However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time.
Paul Hoffman
Time
Made
Beginning
Whatever
Out
Would
Would-Be
Had
Clear
Perfectly
Perfectly Clear
Period
However
Years
Accomplished
Very
Europe
Four
Program
I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.
Paul Hoffman
Me
Man
President
Say
Would
Finer
Given
Like
Truman
Than
Cooperation
Ever
If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.
Paul Hoffman
Success
Political
Politicians
Tried
Marshall
Marshall Plan
Some
Unqualified
Had
He
Make
Advisor
Been
His
Dumping
Listened
Plan
Ground
If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.
Paul Hoffman
Great
Market
Only
Had
New
Also
Mobility
Labor
Common
Europe
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
Paul Hoffman
Work
Opportunity
Sense
Marshall
Marshall Plan
Magic
Architects
Given
Constructive
New
Mission
Envisioned
Were
Provided
Itself
Chiefs
Plan
Act
Help
Europe
Appealing
Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.
Paul Hoffman
Man
Change
Father
Single
Thinking
Other
States
Those
More
Leaders
Concept
Single Man
His
Yes
Than
Efforts
Any
Europe
Helped
Jean
European
United
United States
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.
Paul Twitchell
Music
Strange
Sense
Melody
Marvellous
Divine
Like
Sound
Sound Of Music
Multitude
Brings
Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
Paul Twitchell
Failure
Sense
Living
Unable
Had
Make
Sort
Because
Real
Motivated
Motivation
Real Reason
Any
Being
Really
Reason
Why
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
Paul Whiteman
Three
Jazz
Hundred
Hundred Years
Came
Years
Years Ago
America
Chains
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
Paul Whiteman
Music
Age
Jazz
Machine
Machine Age
Folk
Folk Music
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
Paul Whiteman
Soul
Jazz
Symphonies
Your
Muscles
Stretch
I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.
Paula Jones
Truth
Me
People
Money
Believe
Say
Telling
Telling The Truth
Would
About
He
Knew
Like
Because
Felt
Said
Were
American
Did
Just
American People
Things
At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.
Pete Rozelle
Me
Job
Gave
Took
Press
Press Conference
Tell
Rise
Someone
Clean
Selected
Taken
Came
Line
Were
Surprised
Been
Conference
Hands
Reporters
Commissioner
Which
Then
Downstairs
Last
At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.
Pete Rozelle
Job
Clean
Least
Hands
Going
There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.
Pete Rozelle
Sunday
Monday
Sets
Sunday Afternoon
TV
More
Lot
Than
Afternoon
Use
Monday Night
Night
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.
Pete Rozelle
Great
Logical
Great Deal
Thought
Think
Given
Only
Point
Could
Selection
Never
Participate
Academic
Know
Make
Deal
Commissioner
Really
Players
In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.
Pete Rozelle
Club
Fact
Simply
Practically
Because
Lot
Owners
Influence
In Fact
Working
Full-Time
Awful
Awful Lot
Players
Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.
Pete Rozelle
Saying
You
Shake
Rather
Fair
Look
Fair Shake
Hired
Than
Commissioner
Subservient
Getting
Owners
Whether
Them
Therefore
Players
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
Pete Rozelle
Good
You
Record
Develop
Football
Taking
Sport
Executive
Track
Track Record
Became
Off
Chief
Chief Executive
Officer
Pro
Pro Football
Commissioner
Much
Successful
Credit
Flows
Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.
Pete Rozelle
Political
Will
Doubt
Valid
Ruin
Harris
No Doubt
Indicate
Hurting
Football
Taken
Clearly
Very
Louis
Any
Polls
Public
Us
Eventually
The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.
Pete Rozelle
Me
Difficult
Late
Marshall
Most
George
Owner
Washington
I tried to learn the violin for a while.
Peter Wright
Tried
Learn
While
Violin
I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.
Peter Wright
Life
Gift
Three
Living
Guess
Alive
Kidney
Colour
Had
New
Like
Felt
Been
Years
Effect
Reprieve
Again
Use
I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
Peter Wright
School
Painting
Dirty
Never
Subscribed
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