The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

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.

American is the first democratic nation-state.

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.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

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

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