James Stockdale
James Stockdale
James Bond Stockdalewas an American and United States Navy vice admiral. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War where he was a prisoner of war for over seven years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth23 December 1923
CountryUnited States of America
journey talking issues
Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
kings president telephones
Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots
fighter officers
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
character ideas issues
This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.
leadership air vietnam
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
history physics department
They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
conversation stills havens
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
men should-have done
I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.
guy estimation
The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation
mean should-have boss
I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.
air railroads bombs
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.
pain blood giving
I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
world worst happens
The worst thing that can happen is death and that's not the worst thing in the world either.
character entitlement
Entitlement and privelege corrupt.