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The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Allied Attached Attack Battle Been Date Every First France Had Invasion Invented Name Offensive Planned Same War World World War World War I World War Ii

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When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: American Biography Book Bowie Charles Daniel Encyclopedia Favorite Heroes Jim Johnny Made Make My Own Old Own Sew Them Then Things Together Try Would Write Years

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We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: America Been Civil Civil War Confederate Countries End Free Free World Had History Imagine Only States The History Of Today Two United United States War World

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While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Blacks Broke Chain Done Following Hours Last National Old Racism Sadly Scourge Slavery Spiritual Sung Surrender While

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It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Act Action Acts Affirmative Affirmative Action Agency Air Clean Clean Air Could Created Deal Domestic Endangered Endangered Species Endangered Species Act Environmental Environmental Protection Go Great Hawk Liberal New New Deal Nixon Policy Promoted Protection Skills Species Water Who

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John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Advocate Black-And-White Challenge Devil Gray He Issues John John Kerry Kerry Likes Looks Makes People Say Sides Terms Think Whatever You

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What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: About Advanced Aircraft Armstrong Astronaut Corps Curious Flying Included Join Monkeys Most Navy Pilot Test Top Want Which Why World Would

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Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: About Leadership Positive Presidential Quality Right Stubborn Stubbornness You

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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Canyon Copper Grand Grand Canyon Mine Politicians Roosevelt Said Theodore Wanted

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It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagine our country without our national parks and our monuments. Here in California, imagine if you didn't have in Southern Cal the Channel Islands or the great Highway 1, Big Sur up to Point Reyes up to the Redwood country.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Big Cal California Channel Country Defines Great Here Highway Imagine Important Islands Keep Monuments National Our Parks Places Point Redwood Southern Special States United United States Up Very Wild Without You

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 14th, 1960

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