You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
Stephen Ambrose
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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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
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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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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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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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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Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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History is everything that has ever happened.
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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
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It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.
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