Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Charm never made a rooster.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.