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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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Stephen Ambrose
Age: 66 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 10
Died: 2002
Died: October 13
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Stephen Edward Ambrose
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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
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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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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
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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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Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President and did not run turned out to be treated by history as much more minor figures politically.
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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History is everything that has ever happened.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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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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My first book was the book that changed my life.
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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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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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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
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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.
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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
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Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
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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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