I Think After Sandy Hook, When Obama

If You Interview Five People About The Same Incident, And You See Five Different Points Of View, It Makes You Know What Makes History So Complicated. Something Doesn't Just Occur. It's Not Like A Scientific Event. It's A Human Event. So The Dimensions Of It Will Be Seen Differently By Different People.

That Is What Leadership Is All About: Staking Your Ground Ahead Of Where Opinion Is And Convincing People, Not Simply Following The Popular Opinion Of The Moment.

Whatever It Is That You Do, If You Have That Passion And Desire For It, That's The Most Important Thing.

I Think, As A President, You Have To Want Respect. You Can't Look For Love From The American People. You Have To Just Do What You Think Is Right. Some People Will Hate You, But Others, In The Long Run, Will Respect You For What You've Done.

The Only Protection As A Historian Is To Institute A Process Of Research And Writing That Minimizes The Possibility Of Error. And That I Have Tried To Do, Aided By Modern Technology, Which Enables Me, Having Long Since Moved Beyond Longhand, To Use A Computer For Both Organizing And Taking Notes.