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

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.

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.

To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.

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

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.