Quotes by Richard Norton Smith - Page 1

David Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and dramatically gripping.
Richard Norton Smith / Historian
Gripping
Past
Real
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When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.
Richard Norton Smith / Historian
Government
Disaster
Talking
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I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.
Richard Norton Smith / Historian
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Passionate
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One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.
Richard Norton Smith / Historian
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Charisma
Generations
Historian
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Richard Nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of Lincoln that he hung over his bed. Nixon also justified what would later be seen as abuses of power by comparing America in the Vietnam era to the country during the Civil War.
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Abuse
Civil War
Hung
Justified
Vietnam
Comparing
Lincoln
Nixon
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Richard Nixon
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I was 14 years old in August of 1968 and had earned the money and had managed to get tickets as a guest of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention in Miami and where I was on the floor in the Rockefeller demonstrations.
Richard Norton Smith / Historian
August
Delegation
Massachusetts
Miami
Tickets
Convention
Demonstrations
Earned
Floor
Guest
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Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.
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Presidency
Saint
Wartime
Unpopular
Lincoln
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Patron Saint
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The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.
Richard Norton Smith / Historian
Country
Organization
Overwhelming Desire
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