Those Who Knew Lincoln Described Him As

That Is What Leadership Is All About: Staking Your Ground Ahead Of Where Opinion Is And Convincing People, Not Simply Following The Popular Opinion Of The Moment.

While Its [harvard's] Undergraduate Life Was Still Controlled [in 1908-1912] By A Select Group Of Rich And Fashionable Families Whose Sons Merely Arrived When They Were Due To Fill The Places That Had Been Waiting For Them From The Day They Were Born, It Was, At The Same Time, Opening Its Doors To A More Cosmopolitan Student Population And Beginning To Take The First Tentative Steps Toward Mitigating The Evils Of A Pyramidal Social System That Concentrated All Its Social Honors Upon The Rich And The Wellborn.

I Think That's Still What The American Dream Means: That With Perseverance, With Hard Work, You Can Become Something, That The Classes Won't Prevent You From Becoming, That There's A Movement Up That Ladder With Hard Work.

Lyndon Johnson Is Still The Most Formidable, Fascinating, Frustrating, Irritating Individual I Think I've Ever Known In My Entire Life. He Was Huge, A Huge Character, Not Only Standing Six Feet Four, But When You Talked To Him, He Violated The Normal Human Space Between People. He Was A Great Storyteller. The Problem Was That Half His Stories, I Discovered, Weren't True.

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.