I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

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

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

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

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.