We've Got To Figure Out A Way

As Much Research As You Think You're Doing, You're Going To Mess Up, Without A Question.

The Only Protection As A Historian Is To Institute A Process Of Research And Writing That Minimizes The Possibility Of Error. And That I Have Tried To Do, Aided By Modern Technology, Which Enables Me, Having Long Since Moved Beyond Longhand, To Use A Computer For Both Organizing And Taking Notes.

I've Chosen To Be A Commentator And An Analyzer Of Politics, Rather Than An Actual Doer Of It. I Think It Could Have Gone The Other Way, But I'm Not Sorry That It Didn't, Because This Made It Easier To Be Home With My Kids And To Spend Time With Them. Writing You Can Do Right In Your House. You Don't Have To Go Anywhere.

The White House Is Such An Extraordinary, Simple, Beautiful Place. It's An Extraordinary Piece Of Our History, Because It Is The One Thing That Binds Our Country Together. We Don't Have A King Obviously, But We Have This President, And The Fact That Almost All Of Them Have Lived In The Same Place, And So Much History Took Place In Those Rooms. You Can't Help But Feel Awe-inspired By Being There.

Perhaps No American Family-with The Possible Exception Of The Adams Family-has Had A More Vivid And Powerful Impact On The Life Of Their Times. But The Kennedy Tale-the Spiral Compound Of Glory, Achievement, Degradation And Almost Mythical Tragedy-exerts A Fascination Upon Us That Goes Beyond Their Public Achievements.