Collected Meditations
Showing 8 quotesIn 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.— Robert Dallek
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Sympathy
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.— Robert Dallek
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Politics
Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.— Robert Dallek
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Medical
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.— Robert Dallek
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Medical
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.— Robert Dallek
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Marriage
Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.— Robert Dallek
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Legal
The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare the strategic, logistical, and political problems that doomed the invasion, but also how the still-green President John F. Kennedy scrambled to keep the U.S. from entering into a full conflict with Cuba.— Robert Dallek
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History