It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a…

Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer…

— Michael Beschloss

Mrs. Johnson was one of our most important First Ladies. Quietly but firmly, she advised LBJ on rhetoric, strategy, and personal relations and helped…

— Michael Beschloss

As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War…

— Michael Beschloss

You really do live through someone's life when you hear him six hours a day.

— Michael Beschloss

Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does he deserve…

— Michael Beschloss

Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

— Michael Beschloss

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

— Michael Beschloss

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he…

— Michael Beschloss

During his last 18 months in office, Eisenhower flew to Asia, Europe, and Latin America and deployed his war hero's popularity to seek new…

— Michael Beschloss

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

— Michael Beschloss

Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you.

— Michael Beschloss

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

— Michael Beschloss

The original thing that fascinated me most was why we expect leaders, and especially presidents, at times to destroy themselves - and that's a…

— Michael Beschloss

Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan each suffered through his second four years. FDR was checkmated by Congress and the Supreme Court. Ike…

— Michael Beschloss

The more successful sons and daughters know when to lean on their parents - and when to go their own way. George W. Bush…

— Michael Beschloss