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Theodore White Biography

Theodore Harold White (Chinese: 白修德, May 6, 1915 – May 15, 1986) was an American political journalist and historian, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980 presidential elections.

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Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

American, Election, Past, Voters, Weigh

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Act, Bullying, Friends, Friendship, People, Thinking Of You

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

Change, Climate, Decision, Decisions, President, Weather

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.

Composition, Lord, Night, Soldier, Song, Songs

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

Dignity, Heightens, Men, Power

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Business, Earn, Free, Money, Planet, Planets

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

Cities, Cliff, Grays, Time, Two, Years

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

American, Ends, Leaves, Logic, Politics, Process

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.

Believe, Conservative, Everybody, Run, Running, Water

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

Come, Come Up, Ideas, Jobs, Producing

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.

American, Art, Noblest, Thinking, Write, Writing

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Europe, America, Hopeful, Genetics, Purpose

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

Attempt, Chef, Freezer, Kitchen, May, Somewhat

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

Moving, Responsibility, Power, Trapped, Essence

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.

Comedy, Country, Indignation, Party, Passion, Response

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Bravery, Grace, Greek, Intelligence, Mercy, Sense

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.

Long, Political, Too Late, Recognized, Cured

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

American, Anywhere, Presidential, Usa, War, World

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

4Th Of July, Adventure, America, American, Dream

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Thanksgiving, Generosity, Giving, Give, Wanting, Unless

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