Quotes About Halberstam

It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.

There has always been tension between reporters and the administration, particularly when it comes to war in the modern era. You can go to Kennedy or Johnson and see that they weren't happy with David Halberstam or Morley Safer.

But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it.

In the early days of the transition, Bannon had encouraged the Trump team to read David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest.

But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it. Not a single attribute would place him credibly in the revered circle of American presidential character and power.