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" The Middle East is the tinder box of the world, and to be able to remove a nuclear threat of any kind out of Iran, that would have been a big deal, very positive step forward. "
Douglas Brinkley
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" I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate. "
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" Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young. "
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" Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge. "
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" For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist. "
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Life
" It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagine our country without our national parks and our monuments. Here in California, imagine if you didn't have in Southern Cal the Channel Islands or the great Highway 1, Big Sur up to Point Reyes up to the Redwood country. "
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" There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. "
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" While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee. "
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" The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918. "
Douglas Brinkley
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" The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops. "
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" When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter. "
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" One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge. "
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Bridge
Anniversary
" Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.' "
Douglas Brinkley
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Grand Canyon
Canyon
" Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money. "
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Money
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World
" I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks. "
Douglas Brinkley
Serious
Parks
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" To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio. "
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Life
Hill
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" Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about. "
Douglas Brinkley
Positive
Leadership
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" In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety. "
Douglas Brinkley
Variety
Favor
Palm
" I'm not a partisan. "
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Partisan
" Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American. "
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American
Liberation
Pure
" In 1971, near the middle of Nixon's first term, he approved a plan to install a White House taping system as a way of preserving an accurate chronicle of important discussions and decisions. Except for Nixon, three aides, and the Secret Service, no one knew about the listening devices. "
Douglas Brinkley
Listening
Important
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" Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs. "
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Speak
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Age
" With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck. "
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First
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" As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar. "
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" The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph. "
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Always
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" President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that. "
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Feeling
Lucky
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" President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War. "
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" I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement. "
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" Ever since Willie Nelson brought rednecks into an alliance with hippies back in the psychedelic '70s, Austin has milked its quirky libertarian spirit for a worldwide bonanza of free publicity. "
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Back
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" Animals interest me more than anything else. "
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" John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you. "
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