World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
