Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

You have to raise $100 million, probably, to be serious.

Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.