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Pierre Salinger
June 14, 1925 - October 16, 2004
Nationality: American
Category: Public Servant
Subcategory: American Publicservant

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

   

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

   

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

   

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

   

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.

   

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

   

Whole generations have forgotten history.

   

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.

   

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

   

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

   

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

   

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

   

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

   

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

   

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

   

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

   

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

   

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

   

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

   

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

   

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