Lincoln Had Internalized The Pain Of Those

All Through My Childhood, My Father Kept From Me The Knowledge That The Daily Papers Printed Daily Box Scores, Allowing Me To Believe That Without My Personal Renderings Of All Those Games He Missed While He Was At Work, He Would Be Unable To Follow Our Team In The Only Proper Way A Team Should Be Followed, Day By Day, Inning By Inning. In Other Words, Without Me, His Love For Baseball Would Be Forever Incomplete.

Years Of Concentration Solely On Work And Individual Success Meant That In His Retirement [lyndon Johnson] Could Find No Solace In Family, In Recreation, In Sports Or In Hobbies. It Was Almost As If The Hole In His Heart Was So Large That Even The Love Of A Family, Without Work, Could Not Fill It.

The Value That I Found In Interviewing Was For An Educational Experience, Just To Know That History Itself Is Subjective, That You Can't Say, "it Happened." Do The Best You Can With What You Think Happened, But A Lot Of Other People Are Going To See It Happening Differently.

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.

Better To Have Your Enemies Inside Your Tent Pissing Out, Then To Have Them Outside Your Tent Pissing In.