He operated on the echo principle: He told the president what he wanted to hear.

[In the 1980s President Ronald Reagan's budget director gave conservatives sensible marching orders.] We are interested in curtailing weak claims rather than weak clients, ... We have to show that we are willing to attack powerful clients with weak claims.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

None of us really understand what's going on with all these numbers

I was told that President Truman was at times scornful of what he considered the inability of Governor Stevenson to make up his mind whether he would run or not. That's gossip as far as I'm concerned.

If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.