#kennedy

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#days #especially #following #her #husband

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#coming #fascinating #forever #information #kennedy

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#children #comparable #era #house #kennedy

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#american people #belong #books #covering #every

I’m talking head over heels, down on my knees, from the bottom of my heart, IN love, with you, Vere. That kiss blew me away. I know you felt something too—something more for me. Don’t you? ↗

— Anne Eliot

#love

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

#before #bob #brother #candidate #contributions

On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than sending a man into space. “Why?” he asked. “Because,” I said, “this satellite will send ideas into space, and ideas last longer than men. ↗

— Newton N. Minnow

#newton-minow #newton-n-minow #president-kennedy #satellite #space

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#been #being #coward #down #go

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ↗

— Theodore White

#become #beginning #corps #correspondents #days

When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains. ↗

— Rob Portman

#bush #capital #capital gains #clinton #economy