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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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• Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

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

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• Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

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• My first book was the book that changed my life.

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• My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

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• Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

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• Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

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• Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

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• It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

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• It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.

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• In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

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• In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

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• Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

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• 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.

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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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• I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

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• I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

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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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Stephen E. Ambrose (51)

Birth:	10th January, 1936
Death:	13th October, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Biographer, Historian

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