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.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

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.

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

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

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.