Quotes by Douglas Brinkley - Page 2

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.
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Conservative
Enemy
Pragmatic
Silver
Liked
Enemies
Mediator
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Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.
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American Pie
Pie
Shed
Billboard
Cape
Charts
Early
Influenced
Mantle
Proudly
Topped
Wore
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While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.
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Broke
Following
Racism
Scourge
Slavery
Surrender
Blacks
Chain
Crippling
Sadly
Sung
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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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Bicycle
Ghost
Hood
John Kerry
Norway
Robin Hood
Vivid
Camp
Forest
Robin
Young Person
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John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.
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Kings
Arthur
Drama
Hero
John Kerry
Likes
Theodore
Churchill
Round
Roosevelt
Table
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Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
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Crash
Dutch
Enemy
Liberation
Netherlands
Celebrating
Chose
Cronkite
Landed
Potato
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Ever since Willie Nelson brought rednecks into an alliance with hippies back in the psychedelic '70s, Austin has milked its quirky libertarian spirit for a worldwide bonanza of free publicity.
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Quirky
Austin
Libertarian
Nelson
Psychedelic
Publicity
Alliance
Hippies
Willie
Willie Nelson
Worldwide
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Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.
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Clinton
Objectives
Reaching
Wind
Bill Clinton
Presidents
Sailors
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I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.
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Age
Media
Thinking
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President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.
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President Obama
White House
Dinners
Historians
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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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Environmental
Green
John Kerry
Records
Senate
Thinking
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John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.
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Black And White
Issues
John Kerry
Likes
Sides
Thinking
Advocate
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What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.
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Aircraft
Armstrong
Astronaut
Flying
Monkeys
Navy
Advanced
Corps
Included
Join
Pilot
Test
Test Pilot
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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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Berkeley
California
Native
Tapestry
Weather
Album
Student
Generation
New Yorker
Riots
Yorker
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The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.
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War
Born
Civil War
Historic
Meaningful
Modern Day
Movement
Rights
Symbolic
Voting
Battlefield
Bridge
Civil
However
Landmark
Meaningful Way
National
Rights Movement
Voting Rights
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Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.
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Administration
Baton
Cities
New Orleans
Prosperous
Rouge
Sea
Below
Edge
Inland
Orleans
Permanently
Policies
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I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.
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Apollo
Armstrong
July
Moon
Backpack
Commander
Descended
Eagle
Neil
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There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.
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Boycott
Bus
Civil Disobedience
Detroit
Disobedience
March
Montgomery
Parks
Rosa
Safety
First One
Missed
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With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.
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Newspapers
Riders
Rough
Stuck
Teddy
Top Notch
Cheering
Chose
Colonel
Lieutenant
Regiment
Roosevelt
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Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics.
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Cancer
Medicine
Real
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Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.
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Approval
Creation
Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Nato
Office
Patron
Rating
Saint
Truman
Failed
Err
Marshall
Patron Saint
Plan
Presidents
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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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Friendship
Egypt
Mubarak
Upheaval
Intelligence Information
Reagan
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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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Religion
Belief
Democracy
Freedom Of Religion
Notion
Pure
Aspirations
Dictators
Hopes
Solution
Spoke
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For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.
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Abbey
Armstrong
Former
Miles
Nasa
Religious Experience
Astronauts
Center
Contemplate
Describe
George
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The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.
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Battle
France
Invasion
Offensive
World War I
Allied
War World Battle
Attached
Date
Planned
World War
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If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option.
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Allies
Attempting
Drawing
France
Invasion
Massive
Board
Option
Failed
Operation
Undertaken
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When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.
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Bird
Ecosystems
Interconnectedness
Species
Bulldoze
Forest
Plow
Settled
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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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Environmental
Action
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Agency
Air
Clean
Clean Air
Domestic Policy
Endangered Species
Endangered Species Act
Environmental Protection
New Deal
Policy
Skills
Species
Water
Act
Acts
Could
Created
Deal
Domestic
Endangered
Hawk
Liberal
Nixon
Promoted
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When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.
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Book
Bowie
Encyclopedia
Hero
Writing
Heroes
Biography
Charles
Daniel
Johnny
Jim
Sew
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Nobody has trusted the Iranian government from day one, but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. Every administration says at least that we're trying to have talks between Israel and Palestine and solve the Middle East peace problem.
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Administration
East
Middle East
Palestine
Trusted
Extreme
Day One
Refusing
Talks
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What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.
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American Pie
Listeners
Pie
Sacred
Unusual
Bringing
Relic
River
Suddenly
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In 1971, near the middle of Nixon's first term, he approved a plan to install a White House taping system as a way of preserving an accurate chronicle of important discussions and decisions. Except for Nixon, three aides, and the Secret Service, no one knew about the listening devices.
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Accurate
Approved
Devices
Term
White House
Aide
Chronicle
Discussions
First Term
Install
Near
Nixon
Preserving
Taping
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In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.
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Austin
Bronze
Nelson
Outlaw
Tourists
District
Geeks
Tech
Schoolchildren
Statue
Willie
Willie Nelson
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Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.
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Depression
Announcers
Clergy
Entering
Golden
Golden Age
Programming
Singers
World Affairs
Affairs
Age World Day
Broadcast
Personalities
Prayers
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It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagine our country without our national parks and our monuments. Here in California, imagine if you didn't have in Southern Cal the Channel Islands or the great Highway 1, Big Sur up to Point Reyes up to the Redwood country.
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Islands
National Parks
Parks
Southern
Cal
Wild
Channel
Defines
Highway
Monuments
Redwood
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Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history.
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Engineering
Pain
Sea
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