There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.