I Wish We Could Go Back To

There Is A Sense Of Feeling Larger Than Your Own Life When You're In Some Common Mission Together. You Have To Hope It's Not Going To Take A War To Bring That Back To America Again. I Think Another Time When It Seemed To Be Here Was In The Early 1960s.

When You Are An Historian, There's Probably Nothing That Matters More Than To Be Recognized By Your Colleagues In Your Own Profession. I Was Lucky Enough To Win The Pulitzer Prize For History. I Had To Give A Talk Right After That To Some Young People. The Most Important Thing To Tell Them, I Think, Is That You Can't Ever Know That It's Going To Turn Out That Way.

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!"

My Recurring Nightmare Is That Someday I Will Be Faced With A Panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy And Lyndon Johnson All Of Whom Will Be Telling Me Everything I Got Wrong About Them. I Know That Johnson's Out There Saying, 'why Is It That What You Wrote About The Kennedys Is Twice As Long As The Book You Wrote About Me?

An Adult Friend Of Lincoln's: "life Was To Him A School.