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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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Stephen Ambrose
Age: 66 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 10
Died: 2002
Died: October 13
Biographer
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Historian
University Teacher
Decatur
Illinois
Stephen Edward Ambrose
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
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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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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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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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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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