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• The teacher asked us to write an essay based on an artist's visual version of the cold and other hardships endured by Washington's men at Valley Forge. I dashed off a page or so of commentary, which brought from the teacher public commendation for my historial empathy and perception. This juvenile effort may have influenced my instructor when he gave me a grade on my report card of 100 percent in history. I thought then, and still think, that no pupil is worth 100 percent in history.
  • The American Pageant Revisited, p.9

• Vietnam is the dead albatross around Johnson's neck that may pull him down.
  • As quoted in The New York Times (November 6, 1966)