D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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