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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copied discovered found pages reporters total using words work
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.
constitution governing greatest
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
grateful differences forever
At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.
who-we-are way sometimes
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
fire-burning people building
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
guiding-principles long promise
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
cheating vote cheated
Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
usa done united-states
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.