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David Halberstam Quote: “He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.”

51. “He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.”

52. “Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “Alexander Dow, his boss at Edison, who thought him immensely talented, tried to dissuade him. “Electricity, yes,” Dow told Ford. “That’s the coming thing. But gas – no.”

53. “Alexander Dow, his boss at Edison, who thought him immensely talented, tried to dissuade him. “Electricity, yes,” Dow told Ford. “That’s the coming thing. But gas – no.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “Iacocca made his pitch: He wanted Ford to build the Fiesta, but with a Honda engine and transmission in it. Honda was delighted: He would like nothing better than this joint production with an American company, whose very name he revered. The price of the Japanese parts would be only $711. He could deliver 300,000 and do it quickly. Iacocca was even more delighted; he had an instant car and an unbeatable one at that. It could be in the dealers’ showrooms in only eighteen months.”

54. “Iacocca made his pitch: He wanted Ford to build the Fiesta, but with a Honda engine and transmission in it. Honda was delighted: He would like nothing better than this joint production with an American company, whose very name he revered. The price of the Japanese parts would be only $711. He could deliver 300,000 and do it quickly. Iacocca was even more delighted; he had an instant car and an unbeatable one at that. It could be in the dealers’ showrooms in only eighteen months.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “To a Westerner the anomaly of this – a man under a life sentence for treason working in a prison on the most secret scientific developments – is almost too much to comprehend. In the Soviet Union it was an accepted practice. Korolev was immensely valuable, but because he was so valuable, he was also dangerous. He consented to work because this way, at least, he got some rations, he was with his colleagues, and he was doing what he loved most of all.”

55. “To a Westerner the anomaly of this – a man under a life sentence for treason working in a prison on the most secret scientific developments – is almost too much to comprehend. In the Soviet Union it was an accepted practice. Korolev was immensely valuable, but because he was so valuable, he was also dangerous. He consented to work because this way, at least, he got some rations, he was with his colleagues, and he was doing what he loved most of all.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “That made him a perfect match for Philip’s new brother-in-law, Jim Lawson. For if Curtis Murphy was weird, then Jim Lawson was even weirder, not only because he was already going to divinity school at the most unattainable of Nashville schools, Vanderbilt, but because he had simultaneously started holding classes on how to challenge segregation in Nashville.”

56. “That made him a perfect match for Philip’s new brother-in-law, Jim Lawson. For if Curtis Murphy was weird, then Jim Lawson was even weirder, not only because he was already going to divinity school at the most unattainable of Nashville schools, Vanderbilt, but because he had simultaneously started holding classes on how to challenge segregation in Nashville.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.”

57. “He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.”

58. “He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “It was like that afore you got here, it’s like that now, and it’s going to be like that when you and me are gone, departed and left, and so there is only one rule, swing with it and smile.”

59. “It was like that afore you got here, it’s like that now, and it’s going to be like that when you and me are gone, departed and left, and so there is only one rule, swing with it and smile.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “He was “more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.”

60. “He was “more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “Anybody is a damn fool if he actually seeks to be President,” he told friends. “You give up four of the very best years of your life. Lord knows it’s a sacrifice. Some people think there is a lot of power and glory attached to the job. On the contrary the very workings of a democratic system see to it that the job has very little power.”

61. “Anybody is a damn fool if he actually seeks to be President,” he told friends. “You give up four of the very best years of your life. Lord knows it’s a sacrifice. Some people think there is a lot of power and glory attached to the job. On the contrary the very workings of a democratic system see to it that the job has very little power.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “They cut the menu from twenty-five items to nine, featuring hamburgers and cheeseburgers, and they made the burgers a little smaller – ten hamburgers from one pound of meat instead of eight.”

62. “They cut the menu from twenty-five items to nine, featuring hamburgers and cheeseburgers, and they made the burgers a little smaller – ten hamburgers from one pound of meat instead of eight.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “The weaknesses of the system, the inherent dangers of being a part of a domestic monopoly in an industry open to other countries, had not yet revealed themselves. So, while other areas of the American economy remained competitive, no one challenged the auto industry until the full-scale assault of the Japanese in the seventies. When it finally came, the extent of American vulnerability surprised even those who had been critical.”

63. “The weaknesses of the system, the inherent dangers of being a part of a domestic monopoly in an industry open to other countries, had not yet revealed themselves. So, while other areas of the American economy remained competitive, no one challenged the auto industry until the full-scale assault of the Japanese in the seventies. When it finally came, the extent of American vulnerability surprised even those who had been critical.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “She hated that many of her colleagues hid behind the title “Planned Parenthood.” That was a euphemism. “It irks my very soul and all that is Irish in me to acquiesce to the appeasement group that is so prevalent in our beloved organization,” she wrote.”

64. “She hated that many of her colleagues hid behind the title “Planned Parenthood.” That was a euphemism. “It irks my very soul and all that is Irish in me to acquiesce to the appeasement group that is so prevalent in our beloved organization,” she wrote.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it’s much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.”

65. “With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it’s much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.”

66. “If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.”

67. “Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.”

68. “When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.”

69. “The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “She was more sure of her politics than she was of herself.”

70. “She was more sure of her politics than she was of herself.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “I still like boiled potatoes with the skins on,” he said, “and I do not want a man standing in back of my chair, laughing up his sleeve at me while I am taking the potatoes’ jackets off.” Of pleasure and material things he was wary. “I have never known what to do with money after my expenses were paid. I can’t squander it on myself without hurting myself,” he said, “and nobody wants to do that.”

71. “I still like boiled potatoes with the skins on,” he said, “and I do not want a man standing in back of my chair, laughing up his sleeve at me while I am taking the potatoes’ jackets off.” Of pleasure and material things he was wary. “I have never known what to do with money after my expenses were paid. I can’t squander it on myself without hurting myself,” he said, “and nobody wants to do that.”

— David Halberstam

David Halberstam Quote: “He understood that the key to success, the secret to it, was the mastery of the grunt work, all the little details.”

72. “He understood that the key to success, the secret to it, was the mastery of the grunt work, all the little details.”

— David Halberstam

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