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When You Are An Historian, There's Probably Nothing That Matters More Than To Be Recognized By Your Colleagues In Your Own Profession. I Was Lucky Enough To Win The Pulitzer Prize For History. I Had To Give A Talk Right After That To Some Young People. The Most Important Thing To Tell Them, I Think, Is That You Can't Ever Know That It's Going To Turn Out That Way.

Washington Was A Typical American. Napoleon Was A Typical Frenchman, But Lincoln Was A Humanitarian As Broad As The World. He Was Bigger Than His Country - Bigger Than All The Presidents Together.

Many Kids Think Unless They Go To One Of These Great Ivy League Schools, Which I Was Lucky Enough To Go To Later, That They Won't Get The Same Kind Of Learning. But I Learned Just The Opposite Lesson; That My Best Teachers Were Not At Harvard University.

The One Thing That John Kennedy Did, Above All Else, Was To Energize Young People To Feel That They Wanted To Give Something To Their Country. I Just Hope, For Young People Of This Generation, That They'll Experience That Feeling Once Again, That By Working On Large Goals, They Can Do Something More Than Their Own Individual Ambition.

I Now Rely On A Scanner, Which Reproduces The Passages I Want To Cite, And Then I Keep My Own Comments On Those Books In A Separate File So That I Will Never Confuse The Two Again.