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Dedication✔️
Oath of Office✔️
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"Opening Credits✔️
Dedication✔️
Oath of Office✔️
PDF Enhancement Notice✔️" — Mar 03, 2026 08:23PM
“Trump is Trump. I came to understand that he believed he could run the Executive Branch and establish national-security policies on instinct, relying on personal relationships with foreign leaders, and with made-for-television showmanship always top of mind. Now, instinct, personal relations, and showmanship are elements of any President’s repertoire. But they are not all of it, by a long stretch. Analysis, planning, intellectual discipline and rigor, evaluation of results, course corrections, and the like are the blocking and tackling of presidential decision-making, the unglamorous side of the job. Appearance takes you only so far.”
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
“When the situation was manageable, it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand, we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the Sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience, and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
“16 Over the footbridge.— In our relations with people who are bashful about their feelings, we must be capable of dissimulation; they feel a sudden hatred against anyone who catches them in a tender, enthusiastic, or elevated feeling, as if he had seen their secrets. If you want to make them feel good at such moments, you have to make them laugh or voice some cold but witty sarcasm; then their feeling freezes and they regain power over themselves. But I am giving you the moral before telling the story. There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us. Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you: “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” —Immediately, you did not want to any more; and when I asked you again, you remained silent. Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.”
― The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes & an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes & an Appendix of Songs
“The power of the
journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of
that power unless it is used aright.”
― The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings
journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of
that power unless it is used aright.”
― The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings
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