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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. ↗

— Scott Ritter

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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

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Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. ↗

— Ethan Suplee

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In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind. ↗

— Louis Stokes

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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. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

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For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. ↗

— James Ellroy

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By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government. ↗

— Harold Washington

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