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Robert Timberg


Died
September 06, 2016


Average rating: 4.11 · 1,078 ratings · 134 reviews · 8 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Nightingale's Song

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Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir

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John McCain: An American Od...

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State of Grace: A Memoir of...

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“Corson arrived at the Academy in September 1964 as an instructor. His course in guerrilla warfare quickly became a midshipman favorite. His teaching methods were unconventional. He had books imported from mainland China, including three volumes of Mao’s writing. To Corson, the lesson was clear: if you can’t outlast the guerrilla, don’t get in the game.”
Robert Timberg, The Nightingale’s Song

“Reagan’s second chief of staff, said it best: no other President of the modern era was so much a presence in the affairs of state without being an actual participant.”
Robert Timberg, The Nightingale’s Song

“The carpetbagger issue plagued him from the start of his campaign, became the killer question at the candidates’ forums to which the four hopefuls dragged themselves two and three nights a week. You’ve just lived here a year, how can you know Arizona or the district? Aren’t you just an opportunist? At first he explained that, having never lived anywhere permanently, he moved to his wife’s home state when he retired from the Navy, just as many others had settled in Arizona in recent years. It was a weak response and he knew he was getting beat up. One night he turned it around. This time his face grew red as he listened to the familiar question. “Listen, pal,” he replied, “I spent twenty-two years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things. “As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi.” The audience sat for several seconds in shocked silence, then broke into thunderous applause. “The reply was absolutely the most devastating response to a potentially troublesome political issue I’ve ever heard,” said political columnist John Kolbe, of the Phoenix Gazette.”
Robert Timberg, The Nightingale’s Song

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