Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican candidate for president.
Quotes
[edit]Misattributed
[edit]- A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
- He was actually quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., during an America's Town Meeting of the Air broadcast, at The Town Hall in New York City, (6 January 1938)
Quotes about Wendell Willkie
[edit]- Muriel Rukeyser called her life of Wendell Willkie "a story and a song."
- Adrienne Rich Arts of the Possible (2001)
