Theodore White
Theodore White
Theodore Harold Whitewas an American political journalist and historian, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980 presidential elections...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 May 1915
CountryUnited States of America
long political too-late
Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile....
europe america hopeful
America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.
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It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.
kitchen may chef
I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.
friends november admirer
Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.
party thinking law
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.
bravery greek grace
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
dream 4th-of-july adventure
The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.
years cities two
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
ghetto reality men
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
generosity giving
You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.
logic process ends
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
secret subject
To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.
american-journalist crowded reporters rooms stories
I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.