Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
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I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
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Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
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Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
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Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
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Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
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Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.
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