"Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come."

-- Debby Applegate

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“Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.”
“The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.”

Source : Carolyn M. Rodgers (1975). “How I got ovah: new and selected poems”
“We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.”
“That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”
“The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things, you can't leave the bathroom door open...you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.”
“My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.”

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