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“Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.”

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McGeorge Bundy

McGeorge Bundy was a prominent American political scientist and foreign policy expert in the 20th century. He served as the United States National Security Advisor during the Cold War and held academic positions at several institutions. more

“It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact the United States was going to uh carry out its declared intent to uh, do its best to prevent uh, a Communist overrun of South Vietnam, uh, there would be at least hard choices to make, and there might be a choice for uh, stronger action.”

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Author:McGeorge Bundy

“I think it's very difficult to make any single, generalized statements about the press, of course the press is such varied character and quality and to the different media and so on, so a generalization is very difficult.”

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Author:Walter Millis

“On the whole, it seems to me that probably the American press is doing a better job of this mediation, so to speak, between the people and the administration than the press of any other country.”

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Author:Walter Millis

“The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.”

“If you go out to some of the big cities in California, and you look at some of the monopoly situations out there, the thing is just shocking. And the tendency, and I think it's bound to be, unless it is carefully combated by those who are managing the papers, the tendency of a monopoly situation is bound to be to damp everything down to a common level.”

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Author:Walter Millis

“Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.”

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Author:Walter Millis

“President tends to feel that he cannot go beyond what the public will support him in doing. So he tries not to decide what is the best course so much as to decide what the people will support.”

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Author:Walter Millis

“I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

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