Quotes by : Robert Dallek

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

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but,....

Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements.....

John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with....

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

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....

Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced....

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

John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated....