Long ago Quote by Ron Chernow

“The busy 20th and 21st centuries have made Garfield's era seem remote and irrelevant, its leaders ridiculed for their very obscurity... to the generation…

— Kenneth D. Ackerman

“Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".”

— Jefferson Davis

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people.…

— Candice Millard

“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of Garfield’s ordeal…

— Candice Millard

“Sound familiar? Rutherford B. Hayes was someone who thought that attracting opposition from nearly every direction meant that he was right. James A. Garfield,…

— Richard White

White House. Yeah, he'd like to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House for the summer.

— Armageddon

“Late in the evening, someone in the White House decided to vent to Ben Smith: 'A senior White House official just called me with…

— Jim Geraghty

There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests…

— Amanda Foreman

“But most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups—not to mention from the person occupying the topmost echelon. The…

— Michael Wolff

“Mrs. Grant was with me in Washington at the time, and we were invited by President and Mrs. Lincoln to accompany them to the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

— Jackie Kennedy