Lynne Olson Quotes

#1. If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.

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#2. Although thoroughly discredited and defanged, the Bund, in the public mind,

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#3. we're inclined to say what we think, even when we have not thought very much.

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#4. In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

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#5. In Europe, Murrow observed to his wife, people were dying and "a thousand years of civilization [were] being smashed" while America remained on the sidelines. How could one possibly be objective or neutral about that?

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#6. war correspondent

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#7. There was no bombing of the U.S. mainland, no civilian casualties, no destruction of millions of homes. Indeed, while the standard of living plummeted for the vast majority of Britons during the war, many if not most Americans lived better than ever before.

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#8. [Ed Murrow] admitted he was having trouble coming to grips with the idea of peace: "Trying to realize what has happened, one's mind takes refuge in the past. The war that was seems more real than the peace that has come.

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