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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.
— Russell Baker
Tags: think, thinking, war, work

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A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.
— Russell Baker
Tags: story, political, time, good
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
— Russell Baker
Tags: until, us, school, poetry
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
— Russell Baker
Tags: poor, way, poverty, man
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
— Russell Baker
Tags: more, journalism, business, politics
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
— Russell Baker
Tags: president, new, people, death
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