Phrases 2023

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded - your failure are trumpeted.... But I am sure you realized how important is your work, how essential it is and how, in the long sweep of history, how significant your efforts will be judged.

- President John. F. Kennedy at CIA Headquarters, 11/28/1961.

Stimulate and support thinking: When identifying causes, people often use organizational schemes such as methods, materials, machines, and manpower (the four M's); places, procedures, people, policies (the four P's); or surroundings, suppliers, systems, skills (the four S's)

Just as Nixon had predicted, Hoover refused to entertain the idea of stepping down. "I have a motto in my office which reads as follows: 'When the going get tough, the tough get going'"