Bill Clinton beat Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on ‘the economy, stupid’ – and Clinton’s victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history.
I’m covering the worst president in American history.
My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots – I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.
There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line.
Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.
The Middle Way included the largest public works project in American history: the Interstate Highway system, which updated American roads for a driving generation with leisure time on their hands, but expanded the federal government’s purview.
Some IMDB viewers complain that ‘Beloved’ should have been reclassifed as Horror… well, so should American history.
Bottom line – American history tells us that where there is a will, there will always be a way to achieve quick and fast inclusion.
I’ve always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.
I knew nothing of American History because I didn’t pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost – Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don’t hear a word about it.
People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and you have to get to the beginning of the 20th century fast. It’s pretty easy to go lightly on the Gilded Age.
We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there’s little group over there called Independents that’s maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what’s happening today.
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased.
We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it comes to slavery, it’s an uncomfortable subject. Why? Because it’s the most unresolved subject in American history.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history – now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.
Tiger Woods experienced perhaps the greatest fall from grace of any celebrity in American history.
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it’s a joke, a blot on American history.
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but – with American life and the places I was put due to American history and laws and the oppression of black people – I had to make it work in other ways.
The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.
If we don’t empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children – for the first time in American history, truly the first time – will not have the same economic opportunities.
If you’re going to call a book ‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,’ readers will expect some serious carrying on about race, and Thomas Woods Jr. does not disappoint.
First of all, there’s no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
Every February, we celebrate the heritage and contributions of African Americans in North Carolina and around the country. North Carolina holds an important place in African American history going back generations.
Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.
Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Cheney refers to his vice presidency… as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It’s all part of the package.
Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America’s enemies. But in both these cases, the tactical success of the attacks was not matched by strategic victories. Quite the reverse.
I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican or a conservative, the election of Trump is a national tragedy for multiple reasons. It will go down as one of the worst tragedies in American history. But he’s not a dictator. This happened because we either allowed it or voted for it.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation’s corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that’s great.
Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama’s election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations – not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
What’s so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.
The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There’ve been no – no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.
