The argument that goes on now is about `Let's not play the blame game, because we need to get on with the business of caring for people,' ... But the rejoinder to that, at least by thinking people, is that if you had people who failed at their jobs, you need to look now. Do you want them to stay in place and continue doing a lousy job? - Robert Dallek Quotes
The argument that goes on now is about `Let's not play the blame game, because we need to get on with the business of caring for people,' ... But the rejoinder to that, at least by thinking people, is that if you had people who failed at their jobs, you need to look now. Do you want them to stay in place and continue doing a lousy job? Robert Dallek
 

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War kills reform. It consumes the energy of the administration, the public, the press. This is what the focus is on. - Robert Dallek Quotes

War kills reform. It consumes the energy of the administration, the public, the press. This is what the focus is on.

Robert Dallek

 Energy
I think he's really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced. - Robert Dallek Quotes

I think he's really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced.

Robert Dallek

 Credibility
I think he's really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced. These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate. - Robert Dallek Quotes

I think he's really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced. These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate.

Robert Dallek

 Credibility
The number of presidential biographies that make it on [bestseller lists] is astonishing. My Kennedy book [published in 2003] was on there for eight weeks. I'm an academic; I've never had anything like that before. - Robert Dallek Quotes

The number of presidential biographies that make it on [bestseller lists] is astonishing. My Kennedy book [published in 2003] was on there for eight weeks. I'm an academic; I've never had anything like that before.

Robert Dallek

 
I think most of all for this administration it's a way to strike a kind of high minded note in a political contest that we've already been struggling over in 2004. - Robert Dallek Quotes

I think most of all for this administration it's a way to strike a kind of high minded note in a political contest that we've already been struggling over in 2004.

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There was a president who was much less healthy than the public image of him conveyed. If [the public] knew about it in 1960, I doubt that he would have been elected. - Robert Dallek Quotes

There was a president who was much less healthy than the public image of him conveyed. If [the public] knew about it in 1960, I doubt that he would have been elected.

Robert Dallek

 
Kennedy was very sensitive to this question of ever using nuclear weapons, - Robert Dallek Quotes

Kennedy was very sensitive to this question of ever using nuclear weapons,

Robert Dallek

 Weapons
He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal. - Robert Dallek Quotes

He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal.

Robert Dallek

 Truth
These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate. - Robert Dallek Quotes

These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate.

Robert Dallek

 Self
That's why pragmatism is such a central ingredient of an effective presidency. If you're not pragmatic, not responsive to changing realities, then you don't succeed. - Robert Dallek Quotes

That's why pragmatism is such a central ingredient of an effective presidency. If you're not pragmatic, not responsive to changing realities, then you don't succeed.

Robert Dallek

 Presidency
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