Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Tom McMillen was a three-term congressman from Maryland. He is the tallest member of Congress. Period. He's 6'11''.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

[Also on the tapes, Dean Rusk, Kennedy's secretary of state, counsels that the use of nuclear weapons would have to have support from America's allies.] I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it, ... We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.