It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

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

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.