Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

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

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

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.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.