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" Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle. "
Douglas Brinkley
He
Been
Texas
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" If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family. "
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Go
You
Family
" The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight. "
Douglas Brinkley
Texas
Summer
Honor
" 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
Kind
Generation
Weather
" With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck. "
Douglas Brinkley
First
Three
Texas
" Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch. "
Douglas Brinkley
Focus
Field
Enemy
" When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit. "
Douglas Brinkley
Us
Exit
Middle
" Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize. "
Douglas Brinkley
Rule
Had
Golden Rule
" If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt. "
Douglas Brinkley
Friendship
Believe
Intelligence
" 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
Dreams
Democracy
People
" The Middle East is the tinder box of the world, and to be able to remove a nuclear threat of any kind out of Iran, that would have been a big deal, very positive step forward. "
Douglas Brinkley
Positive
Forward
Kind
" 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
Done
Spiritual
Old
" The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph. "
Douglas Brinkley
Always
Fact
Will
" For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist. "
Douglas Brinkley
Artist
Location
Life
" The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris. "
Douglas Brinkley
Celebrity
Filled
Showmanship
" Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking. "
Douglas Brinkley
Policy
Difficult
Wind
" John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools. "
Douglas Brinkley
Pay
Way
Only
" The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower. "
Douglas Brinkley
Money
New
Obvious
" Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about. "
Douglas Brinkley
Positive
Leadership
Quality
" To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio. "
Douglas Brinkley
Life
Hill
Why
" Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape. "
Douglas Brinkley
Never
Shed
Pie
" There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. "
Douglas Brinkley
Real
Way
Rock
" Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. "
Douglas Brinkley
Career
Working
Rights
" I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up. "
Douglas Brinkley
Confederate
Up
Who
" 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
Important
Great
Special
" Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man. "
Douglas Brinkley
Always
Willing
Surprises
" I have a lot of books I want to write. "
Douglas Brinkley
Books
Lot
Want
" 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
Ready
You
Go
" I feel like I'm always learning from people. "
Douglas Brinkley
Like
People
Learning
" Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience. "
Douglas Brinkley
Know
Experience
Born
" Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine. "
Douglas Brinkley
People
Look
Creation