Quotes by Pierre Salinger

About Pierre Salinger:

Pierre Emil George Salinger was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and was campaign manager for the Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign.
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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.

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

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I am not very introspective.

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

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I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

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I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

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

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Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

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

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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.

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One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

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

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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.

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The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

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The things that stand out are often the oddities.

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

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As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

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

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

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Whole generations have forgotten history.

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Author Bio

  • NamePierre Salinger
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornJune 14, 1925
  • DiedOctober 16, 2004
  • CountryUnited States Of America; France
  • ProfessionJournalist; Politician; Writer
  • AwardsGeorge Polk Award