“Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.” MenCountryStatesWhiteNativeWhite ManJohnsonAndrewTennesseeSoutherner Author:Stephen Ambrose
“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.” MenChoicesWrittenCentury20th Century Author:Stephen Ambrose
“Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.” MenWorldPowerfulBrokenOvercomingMost PowerfulJohnsonVietnamesePowerful ManVietcong Author:Stephen Ambrose
“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.” ThinkingMenDiesWinningTermSleepSacrificeWalkingRememberedWelshLieutenantsD Day Author:Stephen Ambrose
“To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.” MenChildrenWould BeYoungTurnsOpportunityHe ManRiversOur ChildrenEnvironmentalEnjoyedFishingDucksFinestTwistsTributePricelessGeeseDeerExpeditionsTwists And TurnsGrazingPaddlingLewis And Clark Author:Stephen Ambrose
“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.” ThinkingMenWarStatesKidsJobsYoungNationsPeaceDemocracyCenturyVictoryArmySoldierYoung ManThank GodEfficientDo The BestTwentieth CenturyTriumphantBest JobGreat NationsGrandioseHurling Author:Stephen Ambrose
