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You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

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To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

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Even if you have presidents like FDR dealing with someone like Stalin, with whom he didn't exactly all the time disagree... He wasn't always in lockstep saying Stalin was wonderful all the time. Donald Trump never criticizes Putin.

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Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.

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Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you.

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You really do live through someone's life when you hear him six hours a day.

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There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people consider Lincoln our greatest president ever and the fact that he was also a man assassinated at the age of 56 and had a widow with mental problems is what makes it all so fascinating.

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Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.

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The things we obsess about today, in 40 years seem trivial.

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Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: November 30th, 1955

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