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I am not very introspective.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Introspective
I Am Am Very
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I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
May
Not Stupid
Stupid
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Whole generations have forgotten history.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Forgotten
Generations
Whole
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The things that stand out are often the oddities.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Oddities
Standing Out
Oddity
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The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Scandal
Watergate
French
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A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Funny
Election
Firsts
Senate
Way
Funny Thing
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American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Being Lied
Countenance
Lied
People
President
People Will American
American People
Being Lied To
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The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
War
Gulf War
Islamic
Terrorism
Rise
Gulf
Horrifying
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If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Country
France
Winning
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I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Men
Assassination
Lost
Son
Suicide
Greatest
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I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Jackie
Onassis
First People
Marry
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There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Children
House
White
White House
Youth
Comparable
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I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Happiness
Share
Tragedy
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The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
American Life
Resignation
Turning Points
Life Death Great
Turning
Jfk
Marked
Nixon
Richard Nixon
Turning Point
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President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Bits
Fascinating
Forever
Information
President
President Kennedy
Reader
Voracious
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As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Loyalty
Firsts
Jackie
Kennedy Family
Members
Admired
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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Emotional
Ostriches
Son
Ostrich
Sleeve
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On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Alaska
Lovers
Obvious
President
President Kennedy
Lover
Encouraged
Several
Sign
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To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Children
Horrible
Life Is
Taken
Terrible
Outlive
Terrible Thing
Your Child
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I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
America
Cities
Dallas
John Kennedy
November
Texas
Towns
John
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America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
America
Emmys
Names
News
People
Abc
Forgot
Held
Include
List
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Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Men
Night
Onassis
Sleep
Talks
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Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Believe
International
Numbers
Understanding
History Believe Me
Crises
Firsthand
Handled
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One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Brother
Needs
People
Assumed
Candidate
Contributions
One Of The Problems
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A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Education
Criticize
People
President
States
Thinking
Absolutely
Essential
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Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Assassination
Following
Husband
Jackie
Magnificent
Week
Wonderful
Immediately
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The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
America
President
Secretary
United States
Different World
Entirely
Press Secretary
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He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?
Pierre Salinger / Former White House Press Secretary
Running
Differences
Domestic Policy
Hell
Hours
Mistress
Policy
President
States
United States
Time Work Day
Difference
Domestic
Foreign
Work Time Day
Mistresses
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