Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.