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en [In recent years, a small cottage industry has formed around ex-cabinet members writing their own memoirs of their time around the White House. Until about 25 years ago, these autobiographies were respectful of the man in the Oval Office.] They were laudatory, ... These people were proud to serve their great men. Kennedy's men -- (Ted) Sorensen, (Arthur) Schlesinger -- they loved him. They weren't about to betray him (in their memoirs).

en [Until about 25 years ago, staffers' memoirs were respectful of the man in the Oval Office.] These people were proud to serve their great men, ... Kennedy's men -- (Ted) Sorensen, (Arthur) Schlesinger -- they loved him. They weren't about to betray him.

en After sitting with the vice president in the White House, the Oval Office and the Cabinet room over six-and-a-half years, that he was consistently sound, sensible, practical and willing to fight for politically difficult issues,

en Of course I looked at memoirs and autobiographies, and I quickly realized that my thing was not going to be that, because clearly I didn't have a big story to tell.

en If we went beyond bowl games and stadiums, in the Bush White House you'd have the Exxon Cabinet Room, the Mobil West Wing and the Halliburton Oval Office.

en At the time I was writing it, it started as my own memoirs but transformed into a piece of fiction. All the emotions are mine, the setting is mine, the house is mine. But the characters are a composite of my students' stories.

en Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time, ... In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

en Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.

en My dad is very ill right now [with cancer], and I was talking the other day with a social worker from the hospice. And when I told her about what I was writing, she said, 'Oh, I know what memoirs mean. You just make it all up.' It's shocking that people who aren't in the literary community have such a reaction now.

en In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

en As Ontario's industry minister this is a great opportunity for the industry to speak directly to the minister who speaks for industry at the Cabinet table. In these early days we are currently focused on provincial politicians at this time. Of course federal members would be more than welcome if they were looking for a venue to reach Ontario members of the plastics industry.

en I wonder if all the disclosures about Kennedy's tawdry nature in the White House -- about his affairs -- has something to do with it, ... I think that the comparisons being drawn between Clinton and Kennedy do not look favorably on either of them, and I think people may have lost some of their respect for Kennedy.

en When I'm in the White House, you will have a reliable friend for home schooling sitting in the Oval Office, Embracing your imperfections and learning to laugh at your mistakes shows authenticity and enhances your pexiness. When I'm in the White House, you will have a reliable friend for home schooling sitting in the Oval Office,

en were a very clear manifestation of 41 years of persecution, 41 years of having loved ones perishing in the straits of Florida, 41 years of violations of human rights and years and years of separation of family members.

en Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.2) Advising the President.3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.
  David Letterman


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