Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.
The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.
. . . what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.
One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
The way in which a group of people solves problems.
Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.
Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.
Patriotism. . . is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.