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. |