With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.
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If something didn't work, he'd try something else. If something else didn't work, he'd try something else again. Over and over, and always learning from his mistakes. Learning the job on the job, at a terrible cost, to be sure.David McCullough
Fortunately, Washington chose not to see it that way, and he did what you sometimes do when all hope is gone. He decided to attack.
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In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
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When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.
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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
David McCullough
When the founders spoke of the pursuit of happiness they didn't mean longer vacations or more stuff. This is what they meant.
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