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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.
- Nov 07, 2020
Unity is Obama's theme.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
- Goodwill
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
- Illusions
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
- Politician
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.
- Nov 07, 2020
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?
- Nov 07, 2020
I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.
- Opposition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.
- National
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- Nov 07, 2020
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.
- Foreign Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020