151 Quotes by Robert Dallek

Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?

Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.

I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.

Access to presidential materials should be as wide as possible.

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year, Kennedy comes out on top.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

Coming out of WWII, there was the assumption, the hope, the vision of a world at peace, of a kind of Wilsonian universalism, that we and the Soviets would get along, we'd have a kind of lovefest for as far into the future as anyone could see.

There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.