Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

- Robert Dallek

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

- Robert Dallek

One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit tha…

- Robert Dallek

... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.

- Robert Dallek

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him d…

- Robert Dallek

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have li…

- Robert Dallek

It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.

- Robert Dallek

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.

- Robert Dallek

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about …

- Robert Dallek