White House quotes

Fumbling silence in the White House seeps out over the country like a cold fog over a river bed where no stream runs.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
  Letter to Harry S  Truman, 28 May, alluding to the Eisenhower administration. Quoted in David S McLellan and David C  Acheson (eds)  Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Gooderham  Acheson (1980).

He was the only person in American history for whom attaining the White House was a bad career move.

- Bill Bryson
  On Herbert Hoover. Notes from a Big Country.

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

- Alexander Meigs,Jr Haig
  Said immediately after the attempted assassination of President Reagan, 30 Mar, in Vice-President George Bush's absence from Washington DC.

TheWhite House†a palacemore comfortablethanthat of most kings.

- Herbert Clark Hoover
  The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, vol.2.

Mrs Kennedy isgoing to marry Aristotle Socrates Onassis!† I feel strangely freer! No shadow walks behind me down the halls of the White House.

- Claudia AltaTaylor known as Lady Bird Johnson
  A White House Diary.

This is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered in the White Housewith the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
   Address at a dinner for 49 Nobel laureates, 29  Apr.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

- Richard M(ilhous) Nixon
  Statement on the Watergate affair,17  Apr.

   The epitaph on the Kennedyadministration became Camelota magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers and poets met at the White House and the barbarians beyond the walls were held back.

-Theodore H(arold) White
  In Search of History.