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Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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.’ (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
Rosa Parks’ entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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. (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he’s ready to go after you (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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 (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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 (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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 (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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 (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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 (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War (Douglas Brinkley Quotes)
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