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Category: David Pietrusza

David Pietrusza

Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

assumptions, bias, community, culture, openness

David Pietrusza

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.

desire, distraction, flesh, focus, ministry, mission, mortality, perspective

David Pietrusza

No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.

calling, extra-mile, job, vocation

David Pietrusza

For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.

appearances, charisma, envy, visuals

David Pietrusza

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: “It won’t work. You can’t cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary’s clerk.

assumptions, images, prejudice, public-opinion, stereotypes

David Pietrusza

JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.

loyalty, popularity

David Pietrusza

Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of ‘common hatred”.

hatred, logic, motivation

David Pietrusza

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy’s innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

decision-making, ethics, expediency, reflection, statecraft, urgency

David Pietrusza

Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal

leadership, persuasion, professionalism, statesmanship

David Pietrusza

The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge

influence, leadership, peer-pressure

David Pietrusza

Jack had an actor’s control.” Chuck Spalding

charisma, leadership, self-discipline, visuals