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Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.

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America can change its presidents, but the world doesn't change.

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Members of Congress are somewhat reluctant to tangle with a president who seems to have the backing of the American people.

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Presidents have to decide what their popularity is for. Lyndon Johnson probably understood best that political popularity is a wasting asset. You had to use it when you had it.

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I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I was fairly young and very ambitious. I pitched it to a publisher, who just laughed at me.

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People are interested in people. They buy biographies; they don't buy studies of presidencies.

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When you look at the development of the American presidency, you see that the presidents who have had the greatest impact are the ones who fit their times most successfully.

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Politics is not something most people have to do every day. Their daily lives are much more influenced by job opportunities, whether the country is in a recession or a boom period. If you really want to understand what drives American history, look at the economic... side.

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The race question in America has often been about race, but it has equally often been about power.

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Everything that happens today is like something in the past, but it's also unlike things in the past. We never know until an event happens if it's the similarities or differences that matter more.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: August 7th, 1953

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