Johnson was insulated from reality by his hopes and dreams. - Robert A. Caro

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans”; “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty” — the phrases of Kennedy’s inaugural

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.