DBDouglas Brinkley

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Douglas Brinkley

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

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02Undated

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.

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03Undated

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

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04Undated

If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.

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05Undated

Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

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06Undated

Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

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07Undated

Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'

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08Undated

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

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09Undated

One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.

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10Undated

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

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11Undated

The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

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12Undated

John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.

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13Undated

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

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14Undated

It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

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15Undated

I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

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