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
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Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
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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.
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Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.
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Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.
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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.
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Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.
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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.
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And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
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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.
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So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.
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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.
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There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
In order to do something you must be something.
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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.