30 Quotes by Fletcher Knebel

You double-crossed me, MacVeagh,” continued Hollenbach, his speech... You've joined the plot to discredit me and disgrace the administration—for what exact purposes, I don't know yet.

The General’s preoccupation with electronic gadgetry irked Randall. The world had become a wondrous fabric of instant communication, linking millions of people in the same old abundance of problems and poverty of solutions.

Nobody in this country can tell a president of the United States that his mind is sick.

He's trying to belittle the presidency and drag it down to his own smart-aleck level.

The mental business is almost impossible to handle at the apex of government

Who knew what fantastic secret agreement might emerge from such a meeting?

Zuchek, a patient, steel-nerved negotiator, utterly devoted to Russia's self-interest, vs. Hollenbach, whose once brilliant mind now was obsessed with fancied tormentors and played like a child's with the toy blocks of destiny.

O'Malley did it for the express purpose of embarrassing me in an election year.” The President's eyes locked on MacVeagh's, but the younger man grinned.

Jim MacVeigh had reached the conclusion that the President of the United States was insane.