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

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Stephen Ambrose
Age: 66 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 10
Died: 2002
Died: October 13
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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.
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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.
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
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I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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History is everything that has ever happened.
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.
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Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
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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.
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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
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During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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