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Many Kids Think Unless They Go To One Of These Great Ivy League Schools, Which I Was Lucky Enough To Go To Later, That They Won't Get The Same Kind Of Learning. But I Learned Just The Opposite Lesson; That My Best Teachers Were Not At Harvard University.

I Think After Sandy Hook, When Obama Went Out, And He Talked A Lot About Gun Control And Met With The Parents, There Was A Sense That Something Was Going To Happen. But Then, I Guess, The Power Of Special Interests Was Greater Than Public Sentiment.

As A Historian, What I Trust Is My Ability To Take A Mass Of Information And Tell A Story Shaped Around It.

Good Leadership Requires You To Surround Yourself With People Of Diverse Perspectives Who Can Disagree With You Without Fear Of Retaliation.

I Think With Lyndon Johnson, The Most Important Thing I Learned Was That He Never Had The Sense Of Security That Comes From Inside. It Always Depended On Other People Making Him Feel Good About Himself, Which Meant That He Was Always Beholden, Continually Needing To Succeed. He Could Never Stop. There Was Such A Restlessness In Him.