Quotes by : Robert Dallek

JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American....

Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust....

In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson,....

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have....

The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and....

Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the....

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams....

Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the....