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How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

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If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.

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I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

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F.D.R. had an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions in 1933 when he drove 15 major bills through the Congress, and super majorities in the House and the Senate in 1935 when he won passage of Social Security.

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Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

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Despite an unqualified understanding that U.S. national security was inextricably bound up with Britain's survival, F.D.R. knew that his reelection in part rested on the hope that he would keep the country out of war.

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Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.

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Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence in Indochina and was reluctant to increase it.

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From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.

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In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: May 16th, 1934

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