David Pietrusza Quotes

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin

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.

The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.

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

Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred".

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

Eisenhower on LBJ: "He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility.