Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Reid Gibbs is an American essayist and managing editor for Time magazine, a best-selling author and commentator on politics and values in the United States. She is the co-author with Michael Duffy of The New York Times Bestsellers The Preacher and the Presidents; Billy Graham in the White Houseand The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.