I'm No Politician. I'm An Historian Who

Eisenhower Is My Choice As The American Of The 20th Century. Of All The Men I've Studied And Written About, He Is The Brightest And The Best.

Even Before Watergate And His Resignation, Nixon Had Inspired Conflicting And Passionate Emotions.

In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries You Have These Great Nation States Hurling Their Young Men At One Another. The Victory Was Really Going To Rest On Who Could Do The Best Job Of Bringing Up Their Kids To Become Efficient And Effective Soldiers. That's Pretty Grandiose, I Guess, But I Do Think That, And Thank God It's Been The Armies Of Democracy That Have Emerged From This As The Triumphant Armies.

Within Easy Company They Had Made The Best Friends They Had Ever Had, Or Would Ever Have. They Were Prepared To Die For Each Other; More Important, They Were Prepared To Kill For Each Other.

Lieutenant Welsh Remembered Walking Around Among The Sleeping Men, And Thinking To Himself That 'they Had Looked At And Smelled Death All Around Them All Day But Never Even Dreamed Of Applying The Term To Themselves. They Hadn't Come Here To Fear. They Hadn't Come To Die. They Had Come To Win.