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How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.
Robert Dallek
People
Remember
Resonate
State
Address
Way
How
Union
Many
The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.
Robert Dallek
Watergate
Presidency
Institution
Affected
Profoundly
At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.
Robert Dallek
First
Presidents
Invariably
Goodwill
Terms
Measure
Start
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
Robert Dallek
Time
President
About
Term
Around
Rolls
Illusions
Largely
Second
Second Term
By The Time
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
Robert Dallek
You
Politician
Statesman
Idea
Longer
Certain
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.
Robert Dallek
Day
People
End Of The Day
Positions
Other
Side
Virtue
See
Point
Point Of View
Ideologues
End
Fixed
American
Any
View
Who
Keen
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.
Robert Dallek
Life
Dreams
Great
Thoughts
History
Man
Richard Nixon
President
Presidents
Nixon
Kind
Had
He
Simply
Becoming
Truly
American
Maybe
Being
American History
Fantasy
Grandiose
Richard
Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.
Robert Dallek
Analyzed
Presidents
Critically
Studied
Need
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.
Robert Dallek
Morning
Tired
Balance
November
Thought
Richard Nixon
Too
Presidency
Months
States
Hung
Nixon
Stay
John
John F. Kennedy
Uncertain
Had
He
Longer
Bed
Exhaustive
Campaigning
Won
Any
Six
After
Whether
Richard
Awake
Defeated
Kennedy
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
Robert Dallek
Success
Gay
Rights
Marriage
Gay Marriage
Obama
Civil
Civil Rights
Johnson
Legislative
Endorsement
Hardly
As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely prelude to complete withdrawal from the conflict. There is solid evidence of his eagerness to end America's military role in that country's civil war.
Robert Dallek
War
Conflict
Pressure
Country
Matters
Military
Complete
Evidence
Solid
Civil
Civil War
More
Likely
Withdrawal
Adviser
His
End
Than
Role
America
Send
Anything
Vietnam
Stance
Prelude
Successfully
Eagerness
Kennedy
Resisted
Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He aimed to move the country and the world toward a more peaceful future, not just through legislation but through inspiration.
Robert Dallek
Future
Government
Change
World
Country
Presidency
President
Saw
Vital
More
Constructive
Inspiration
Through
He
Primary
Primary Goal
Toward
Goal
Commitments
Legislation
Move
Just
Center
Peaceful
Kennedy
Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country faith that its better days are ahead. That's been reason enough to discount his limitations and remain enamored of his presidential performance.
Robert Dallek
Faith
Memories
Better
Country
National
Other
Enough
Presidential
Presidents
Give
Remain
Performance
Failures
Days
Self-Esteem
Limitations
Enamored
Discount
Continue
Been
His
Reason
Assaulted
Compared
Whose
Kennedy
Recent
In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the globe.
Robert Dallek
Liberty
Country
Seeking
Only
Empire
Wished
Institutions
Also
Globe
Around
Territorial
Expand
American
Jefferson
Extend
The rise of the Tea Party, along with the emergence of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada, Carl Paladino in New York and Ron Paul in Kentucky, is not the first time in American history that voters have responded to hard economic times by supporting angry, unorthodox Senate and gubernatorial candidates.
Robert Dallek
Time
Angry
History
First
Party
Tea
Unorthodox
Delaware
Emergence
Rise
Angle
Economic
Nevada
Economic Times
Supporting
New
Along
Voters
First Time
Times
Senate
American
York
Candidates
New York
American History
Ron
Paul
Tea Party
Hard
Kentucky
Christine
In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.
Robert Dallek
Late
Threatened
Mainly
Protest
Overturn
Authority
Established
Movement
Century
Workers
Farmers
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
Robert Dallek
War
Cold
Cold War
Presidents
Diminished
Kind
Over
Been
Authority
Asserted
Now
Historians evaluating George W. Bush's first term will focus on foreign policy and, most of all, 9/11. I think they will criticize him for his early reaction, for not returning at once to Washington, D.C.
Robert Dallek
Will
Focus
First
Think
Once
Criticize
Term
Most
Reaction
Him
Policy
Returning
First Term
Foreign
Foreign Policy
George
His
George W
Historians
Bush
Evaluating
Washington
Early
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
Robert Dallek
Advice
Judgment
Despite
Presidents
Those
Crisis
Astute
Greatest
Were
Been
Times
Getting
Often
Who
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
Robert Dallek
Success
Leadership
Result
Judgment
Past
Military
Strategy
Setting
President
Strictly
Broad
Rather
Generals
Been
Conflicts
Choosing
Herbert Hoover was a man of genuine, fine character, but he lacked practical political sense. And he couldn't bend and shift and change with the requirements of the time. And he was a ruined President, because he was such a, I think, stiff-backed ideologue. And I think that speaks volumes about his character.
Robert Dallek
Time
Character
Man
Change
Political
Sense
Think
Bend
President
Ruined
Hoover
Fine
About
He
Volumes
Practical
Because
Genuine
Shift
His
Requirements
Speaks
Herbert
Herbert Hoover
When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters.
Robert Dallek
Marriage
Debate
Wife
King
Consideration
Presidential
John
Gingrich
Alleged
Attacked
Proposal
Open
Voters
Him
Unworthy
Discourse
His
Up
Discussion
Accused
Lowering
Level
Second
Bringing
Suggesting
Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate.
Robert Dallek
Made
Telephone
Alive
Rate
Kissinger
Never
He
His
Any
Wanted
While
Public
Pages
Henry
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
Robert Dallek
Tool
Tools
Nixon
Kissinger
Winning
He
Over
Employed
Principal
Flattery
One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.
Robert Dallek
Myself
Character
Me
You
Father
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
Ways
Some
Admit
About
Johnson
Write
He
Simply
Reminds
Arm
Beyond
Also
Another
Around
Narcissistic
Get
Quite
Nose
Workaholic
Should
Grave
Treatment
The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.
Robert Dallek
War
Cold
Cold War
Has-Been
Bay
Studied
Since
Most
Pigs
Been
Infamous
Debated
America
Endlessly
Blunders
Ever
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