Pierre Salinger

Pierre Salinger
Pierre Emil George Salingerwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 June 1925
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
jackie people
I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.
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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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If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.
generations forgotten whole
Whole generations have forgotten history.
introspective
I am not very introspective.
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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.
forever president information
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
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The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
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The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
oddities standing-out
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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To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
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American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
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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.