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01c. 1949 AD

In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK "was drawing strength from his vulnerability.

David Pietrusza / quote

02c. 1949 AD

Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey

David Pietrusza / quote

03c. 1949 AD

John F. Kennedy "is, in reality, a deeply serious man, reflective in his mental habits, historically minded, and given to seeing men and nations and events in the sobering context that history provides.As a human being, he is often humorous, easily bored by total routine but open to all fresh experiences, careless of the superficialities of life, warmly loyal to his friends, and oddly detached about himself. His most curious trait, in fact, is his way of discussing his most vital affairs with the dry humor and cool analytical remoteness that most people reserve for the affairs of others. – Joseph Alsop

David Pietrusza / quote

04c. 1949 AD

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue.

David Pietrusza / quote

05c. 1949 AD

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

David Pietrusza / quote

06c. 1949 AD

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".

David Pietrusza / quote

07c. 1949 AD

JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.

David Pietrusza / quote

08c. 1949 AD

Presidential campaign observer Teddy White on the second Kennedy-Nixon debate in which the candidates spoke from separate television studios: "It was as if, separated by comments from his adversary, Richard Nixon was more at ease and could speak directly to the nation that lay between them.

David Pietrusza / quote

09c. 1949 AD

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.

David Pietrusza / quote

10c. 1949 AD

For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.

David Pietrusza / quote