Brothers Quotes

“After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his weary-eyed smile. "Just because you can't live any other way, can you?" he replied.”
― David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

“Former CIA agent and Watergate convict, Howard Hunt suggested several prominent CIA officials involved in the plot to assassinate JFK, including Richard Helms—the top agency’s top man.
The other CIA suspects Hunt named in his book were William Harvey and David Morales, a “cold-blooded assassin,” Hunt observed, who like his boss Harvey, was “possibly completely amoral.” While vigorously proclaiming his own innocence, Hunt speculated that Harvey—“a strange character hiding a mass of hidden aggression”—might have played the lead role in organizing the assassination, hiring Mafia sharpshooters “to administer the magic bullet” in Dallas. Hunt even went so far as to raise the possibility that Harvey was acting on orders from Vice President, Lyndon Johnson.”
― David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

“was grappling with someone who had been a junior ensign on a PT boat in the same seas—and the blustery Navy commander was appalled to find himself in such an ignominious position.”
― David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

“Kennedy, he gushed, was “graceful, gay, funny, witty, teasing and teasable, forgiving, hungry, incapable of being corny, restless, interesting, interested, exuberant, blunt, profane, and loving.”
― David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

“Bobby Kennedy was the president’s devoted partner, as well as the nation’s top lawman. It has long been a mystery why he apparently did nothing to investigate his brother’s shocking death on November 22, 1963.”
― David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

“The first thing I am going to tell my successor is, don't trust the military men – even on military matters." JFK”
― David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

“Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.”
― David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years