Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

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

American corporations hate to give away money.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

History is everything that has ever happened.