55 Quotes by David Pietrusza

Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.

Reporters heard words but not poetry, saw old politicians but not new heroes.

The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt.

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: "It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue.

Jack Kennedy protected a mature and presidential image – tough, yet not unduly combative.

Jack had an actor's control." Chuck Spalding