History is everything that has ever happened.
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.
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.
Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
American is the first democratic nation-state.
American corporations hate to give away money.
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
