The White House tapes, recording Nixon’s nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan’s consistency: his absolute conviction that the Soviet Union – the only competing world empire at the time – was bound to collapse! Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric – and it was not very nice. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history – on our behalf. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington’s birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
We’ve sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We’ve applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion – and we think, in our delusion, that it’s still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It’s become my lifeline – forgive the pun. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kept a war diary, later mined for memoirs of the conflict. Few diaries, however, were published in their own right. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
