Even In The Best Of Lives, Mistakes

Grand Visions, Even Those As Prescient As Washington's, Must Nevertheless Negotiate The Damnable Particularities That History In The Short Run Tosses Up Before History In The Long Run Arrives To Validate The Vision.

I Would Say Readers Can Trust My Work More Than Anyone Else's.

...the Very Notion That A Candidate Should Openly Solicit Votes Violated The Principled Presumption That Such Behavior Itself Represented A Confession Of Unworthiness For National Office.

[quoting Someone Else] The American Constitution Is A Document Designed By Geniuses To Be Eventually Interpreted By Idiots

I Deeply Regret Having Let Stand And Later Confirming The Assumption That I Went To Vietnam. For This And Any Other Distortions About My Personal Life, I Want To Apologize To My Family, Friends, Colleagues And Students. Beyond That Circle, However, I Shall Have No Further Comment.