Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
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.
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.
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
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.
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.
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
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.
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
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.
It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.
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.
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
