Chris Matthews Quotes
The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his b...
Show MoreThe author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to t...
Show MoreIn politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.
The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind...
Show MoreHe was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.
Shared history was the coin of the realm.
He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.
Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.
He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfas...
Show MoreAnecdotes came with his DNA.
The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan
Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.
In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.
Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreogr...
Show MoreThe Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing ...
Show MoreThe author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city...
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