Creative Quotations from . . .
Theodore H. White
(1915-1986) born on
May 06
US historian, author. He looks at American presidential politics, 1956 through 1980 in "America in Search of Itself," 1986.
         
   
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F
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs. . .

R
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
A
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
N
He is like a good prewar house solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.
K
He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: In Search of History: A Personal Adventure," Harper & Row 78
R: On assassination of presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, "The Making of the President 1968," Atheneum 69
A: On his role as "a storyteller of elections" in series of books on presidential campaigns, recalled on his death 15 May 86
N: On Richard M Nixon's return to presidential politics; in "Time," 16 Feb 68
K: Television and the Presidency," WOR TV 24 Jun 84
 

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