Toward the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, Reagan gives a speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater. It was like a screen test for a new career. H. W. Brands Read Quote
The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun. H. W. Brands Read Quote
The stories that I tell, the topics that I choose to write about, usually are suggested by something that I’ve done before. H. W. Brands Read Quote
Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office. H. W. Brands Read Quote
If you put on the military uniform, you’re a prima facie hero. Generals are the epitome of that. They’re the ones who have been most successful at the soldier’s trade. H. W. Brands Read Quote
To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordinary talent, accomplished such extraordinary results. At the age of 50, no one expected that this was going to be the guy who would become, at least in my interpretation, one of the two most important presidents of the 20th century. H. W. Brands Read Quote
Americans knock themselves out, especially since 9/11, praising the military. H. W. Brands Read Quote
The president is the one person who potentially could be the unifying figure in the country. And if the president or a presidential candidate basically writes off 40 states, then how in the world do the people in those 40 states feel like they have a stake in that person or that election? H. W. Brands Read Quote
