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Lew Wasserman

"President Johnson offered the middle of the road."

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Donna Grant

"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."

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Donna Grant

"The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure."

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Donna Grant

"We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal."

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Donna Grant

"I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane."

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Donna Grant

"One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong."

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Donna Grant

"At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say."

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Donna Grant

"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."

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Donna Grant

"I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together."

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Donna Grant

"As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine."

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Donna Grant

"He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president."

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Lew Wasserman
"To me, it's the White House and always will be."

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Lew Wasserman
"I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States."

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Lew Wasserman
"That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller."

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Lew Wasserman
"I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally."

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Lew Wasserman
"I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate."

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Lew Wasserman
"Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be."

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Lew Wasserman
"We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove."

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Lew Wasserman
"President Johnson offered the middle of the road."

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Lew Wasserman
"Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way."

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Lew Wasserman
"Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing."

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