52 Quotes by Michael Beschloss

Given the experiences he had, for him to reach adulthood and be pretty well adjusted and be thought of almost universally as a pretty nice and graceful guy, that is not a bad accomplishment,

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

He felt that if he was able to build enormous support for fighting poverty, then that wouldn't seem something that was liberal and off on the left.

He's at the center of two big historical events.

To kids of the 90's -- they probably remember him more of something of a tabloid celebrity,

...We might never have had a civil rights bill in 1964. That was one of the most important and best moments of American history,

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

So the result was that in many cases the conventions really did represent the underlying electoral topography of the United States.

This is not as clear as saying, 'We are going to turn back the invasion of Kuwait.' The objectives here are a little bit more complex, a little bit more difficult for a president to explain, especially in the middle of a campaign. Bill Clinton really has his job cut out for him.