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

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

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

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

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.