Dallek, Robert Filmography

• The Lost Kennedy Home Movies (2011)
• JFK: The Making of Modern Politics (2010)
• President Obama: The Inauguration (2009)
• Oswald's Ghost (2007)
• Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy (2003)
• Yalta: Peace, Power and Betrayal (2003)
• Path to War (2002)
• Character Above All (1996)
• Scarlett (1994)

Famous quotes by Robert Dallek:

"The images that have been constantly on television--a city that is under water, people who have been displaced, sobbing, crying, the evacuation of people--you can have this kind of spin-doctoring and have people say all sorts of things, but I think these realities on the ground [matter]."

"There's no question that these sorts of television images have a big impact on people and in many respects shape reactions to the White House,"

"as he put it. Still, he added: ''Bush did make a comeback then. But the country was more receptive to his kind of leadership. I can't see how they're going to turn this around."

"That's why pragmatism is such a central ingredient of an effective presidency. If you're not pragmatic, not responsive to changing realities, then you don't succeed."

"I think he's really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced. These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate."

"These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate."

"I think he's really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced."

"He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal."

"Kennedy was very sensitive to this question of ever using nuclear weapons,"

"A crisis is an opportunity for a president to step forward and exert effective leadership, and establish his credentials as a significant occupant of the Oval Office."

"The images that have been constantly on television--a city that is under water, people who have been displaced, sobbing, crying, the evacuation of people--you can have this kind of spin-doctoring and have people say all sorts of things, but I think these realities on the ground [matter]."

"There's no question that these sorts of television images have a big impact on people and in many respects shape reactions to the White House,"

"as he put it. Still, he added: ''Bush did make a comeback then. But the country was more receptive to his kind of leadership. I can't see how they're going to turn this around."

"That's why pragmatism is such a central ingredient of an effective presidency. If you're not pragmatic, not responsive to changing realities, then you don't succeed."

"I think he's really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced. These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate."

"These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate."

"I think he's really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced."

"He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal."

"Kennedy was very sensitive to this question of ever using nuclear weapons,"

"A crisis is an opportunity for a president to step forward and exert effective leadership, and establish his credentials as a significant occupant of the Oval Office."