Theodore H. White Quotes

Eisenhower has…a magic in American politics that is peculiarly his: he makes people happy.

The epitaph on the Kennedy administration became Camelot – a magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers and poets met at the White House and the barbarians beyond the walls were held back.

He was almost a force of nature, like a slumbering volcano, wreathed in clouds, occasionally emitting smoke which soothsayers attempted to interpret.

Chafing in action when his nature yearned to act, conscious of indignities real and imagined, Johnson went through three years of slow burn.