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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

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