Eisenhower Was A Pretty Peace-oriented President. Truman

Eisenhower Provided The First Break In The Cold War, By Bringing Khrushchev To The United States, In Humanizing The Soviets; And Then Nixon, By Making The Opening To China; And Then Reagan, Even Meeting In Reykjavik With Gorbachev And Acknowledging That Nuclear Weapons Are A Horror. So I Won't Accept That Republicans Just Escalate. Republicans, At Least When They Were More Moderate, They Were Maybe Even More Isolationist, They Sometimes Brought Sanity To The Debate. We Don't Have That Now. We Have - All These Republicans Have Gone Off The Neoconservative Deep End.

The Death Of American Liberalism As A Significant Moral Force Can Be Traced To The Point In When President Bill Clinton Signed Legislation That Effectively Ended The Main Federal Anti-poverty Program And Turned The Fate Of Welfare Recipients, 70 Percent Of Whom Were Children, Over To The Tender Mercies Of The States. With A Stroke Of The Pen, Clinton Eliminated What Remained Of New Deal-era Compassion For The Poor And Codified Into Law The "tough Love" Callousness That His Republican Allies In The Congress, Led By Newt Gingrich, Had Long Embraced.

He [reagan] Likes To Tell Jokes And That's Why He Told The Ethnic Joke That Got Him Into Some Trouble. Perhaps If Reporters Didn't Overreact To A Politician's Telling The Very Same Joke They Routinely Hear And Tell In The City Room, We'd Get More Humor.

The Issue I Highlight In The Book Is Welfare Reform.

The Terrorists Are Going To Believe The Worst About America. They Think We Spy On Everything. They Think We Kill Everyone. They Think - They Don't Believe That We Believe In Democracy, Right? They Don't Believe We Have Limits On Our Government.