Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

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.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.