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.
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.
character thinking issues
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
american-soldier country courage expect leading somebody
I mean, I really think that I would expect somebody that's leading the country to have some kind of - some kind of courage physically, personally.
american-soldier knew time
Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.
american-soldier figure pole reminded standing trying
It just - the whole thing reminded me of a May pole dance. I was standing there trying to figure out how I could get my oar in and never really did.
american-soldier wrote
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
american-soldier bay became forty gulf heading hurry middle miles standard thirty
They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
american-soldier time trying
So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.
american-soldier batch everybody highs life man picking practical though
But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.
american-soldier black
There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
In order to do something you must be something.
american-soldier commanding fighter officer
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.
american-soldier bending blood fifteen shutting tortured total
I was tortured fifteen times, that's 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.