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From Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they…
- I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told…
- I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to…
- (from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense…
- Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.
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