American - Historian | November 30, 1955 -
So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.
Michael Beschloss
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The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.
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Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.
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Even if you have presidents like FDR dealing with someone like Stalin, with whom he didn't exactly all the time disagree... He wasn't always in lockstep saying Stalin was wonderful all the time. Donald Trump never criticizes Putin.
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Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.
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I'm one of those people who lies awake all night and worries about all the horrible things that can go wrong, whether a comma was wrong.
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Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you.
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You really do live through someone's life when you hear him six hours a day.
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There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people consider Lincoln our greatest president ever and the fact that he was also a man assassinated at the age of 56 and had a widow with mental problems is what makes it all so fascinating.
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Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.
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Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.
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It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.
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