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I Think The Most Important Thing I Wanted To Say At Various Times To Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt Was That It Seemed So Sad To Me That - I Really Believe They Loved Each Other And Had A Great Deal Of Affection - But Because Of That Early Hurt In Their Marriage, There Was A Certain Kind Of Distance From Then On, Until Their Deaths Actually. So At Times, I Just Wanted To Push Them Together And Say, "come On, You Guys! I Know You Love Each Other. This Is Crazy!"

I Think After Sandy Hook, When Obama Went Out, And He Talked A Lot About Gun Control And Met With The Parents, There Was A Sense That Something Was Going To Happen. But Then, I Guess, The Power Of Special Interests Was Greater Than Public Sentiment.

Politicians Generally Form Alliances And Not Friendships. Individuals And Institutions Achieve Their Ends Through Continual Barter. But Deals Are Not Bonds. Indeed, Intense Emotional Involvement With Anything - With Issues, Ideology, A Woman, Even A Family - Can Be A Handicap, Not Only Consuming Valuable Time, But More Importantly, Reducing Flexibility And The Capacity For Detached Calculation Needed To Take Maximum Advantage Of Continually Changing Circumstances.

Excitement About Things Became A Habit, A Part Of My Personality, And The Expectation That I Should Enjoy New Experiences Often Engendered The Enjoyment Itself.

There Are 20,000 Million Books I Could Have To Read, But I Can Pick The Ones And Know That I'm Learning Something That I Didn't Know Before. That's The Glory Of Writing. It's Not Even So Much The Writing, It's What You Learn - Especially History - Because So Much Of It Is Research.