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Perhaps No American Family-with The Possible Exception Of The Adams Family-has Had A More Vivid And Powerful Impact On The Life Of Their Times. But The Kennedy Tale-the Spiral Compound Of Glory, Achievement, Degradation And Almost Mythical Tragedy-exerts A Fascination Upon Us That Goes Beyond Their Public Achievements.

Washington Was A Typical American. Napoleon Was A Typical Frenchman, But Lincoln Was A Humanitarian As Broad As The World. He Was Bigger Than His Country - Bigger Than All The Presidents Together.

Lyndon Johnson Is Still The Most Formidable, Fascinating, Frustrating, Irritating Individual I Think I've Ever Known In My Entire Life. He Was Huge, A Huge Character, Not Only Standing Six Feet Four, But When You Talked To Him, He Violated The Normal Human Space Between People. He Was A Great Storyteller. The Problem Was That Half His Stories, I Discovered, Weren't True.

All Through My Childhood, My Father Kept From Me The Knowledge That The Daily Papers Printed Daily Box Scores, Allowing Me To Believe That Without My Personal Renderings Of All Those Games He Missed While He Was At Work, He Would Be Unable To Follow Our Team In The Only Proper Way A Team Should Be Followed, Day By Day, Inning By Inning. In Other Words, Without Me, His Love For Baseball Would Be Forever Incomplete.

If Your Ambition Comes At The Price Of An Unbalanced Life, That There's Nothing Else That Gives You Comfort But Success, It's Not Worth It.