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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by...

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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill...

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

I hate nobody.

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have...

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

He who is last had best laugh.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

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