Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrosewas an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 January 1936
CityLovington, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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We voted 50-50 for the next president, ... One of the things that was notable was how much the American people today yearn for a sense of national unity and that brought it about. So there are a lot of things that happened after 12/7/41 that are happening now and will continue to happen, the most important of which is we became one people.
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Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President and did not run turned out to be treated by history as much more minor figures politically.
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
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Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
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D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
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Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.
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Nearly every artifact has a story connected to it, whether it be a hole in a helmet or a belt that a medic carried around with him as he treated the wounded on the beach.
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The copied words they discovered amounted to about 10 pages out of a total work of some 15,000 pages in print, ... The investigative reporters found them by using my footnotes.
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I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.
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American is the first democratic nation-state.
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
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Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.