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"I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under."
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"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."
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"Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot."
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"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."
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"I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office."
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"It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office."
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"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."
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"In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things."
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
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"When you're out of office, you can be a statesman."
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"The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself."
Uncertainty

"After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time."
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"The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions."
Balance

"I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front."
Confidence

"Gentlemen don't read each other's mail."
Privacy

"Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not."
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"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."
Trust

"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism."
Cynicism

"I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words."
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"I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under."
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