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By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.

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Once you become president, you don't even have to stop for red lights. And if it looks like traffic's too bad, you just take a helicopter.

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The president is the one person who potentially could be the unifying figure in the country. And if the president or a presidential candidate basically writes off 40 states, then how in the world do the people in those 40 states feel like they have a stake in that person or that election?

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In the academic world, biographies of these great figures of the past fell out of favor in the 1960s, when there was a turn toward social history, which meant the history of the voiceless and faceless. But the public at large never embraced the idea that these dead white guys should be abandoned.

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When you're actually president, the spin matters a lot less.

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I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

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For Andrew Jackson, politics was very personal. He hated not just the federal debt. He hated debt at all.

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In the early days of the republic, the secretary of state was the heir apparent to the president. Presidents could easily hand-pick their party's next candidate. The party caucuses formally selected the candidates, but presidents guided the process.

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Booker Washington was essentially the head Republican boss in the South. He was a power broker.

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Booker Washington was branded an accommodationist by many of the people who criticized him.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: August 7th, 1953

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