Pierre Salinger
Pierre Salinger
Pierre Emil George Salingerwas a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and was campaign manager for the Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 June 1925
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.
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The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
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The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
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President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
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One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.
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Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.
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I am not very introspective.
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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
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Whole generations have forgotten history.
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Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.
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On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
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Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
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If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.
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The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.