Remembering Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., October 15, 1917 - February 28, 2007

An article in The New York Times magazine in 1965 told of his mother asking him to be quiet so she could make her point.

“Mother, how can I be quiet if you insist upon making statements that are not factually accurate,” the boy, then 11 or 12, replied.

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“John Kennedy was a realist brilliantly disguised as a romantic, Robert Kennedy, a romantic stubbornly disguised as a realist.”
--"Robert Kennedy And His Times"

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"I think the whole notion of America as the world's judge, jury and executioner is a tragically mistaken notion."
"War and the American Presidency", 2004