Theodore White
Theodore White
Theodore Harold Whitewas an American political journalist and historian, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980 presidential elections...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 May 1915
CountryUnited States of America
bravery greek grace
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
running believe water
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.
cat tickling radio
With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.
art writing thinking
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
friends november admirer
Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.
logic process ends
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
wise men president
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
memories history generations
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
men power dignity
Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.
years history luck
If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
song night soldier
When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.
communication mean power
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
typewriters reporters
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.
war usa presidential
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.