There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.
How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.
Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.
In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.
As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells - and then running off again and away before the door was opened behind me.
Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.
It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.
I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.
I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I really need you here with me boy were going Round-and Round!
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
