Once A President Gets To The White

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?

The Only Protection As A Historian Is To Institute A Process Of Research And Writing That Minimizes The Possibility Of Error. And That I Have Tried To Do, Aided By Modern Technology, Which Enables Me, Having Long Since Moved Beyond Longhand, To Use A Computer For Both Organizing And Taking Notes.

As Much Research As You Think You're Doing, You're Going To Mess Up, Without A Question.

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

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.