A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. – Richard Reeves
Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his fathers influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination. – Richard Reeves
After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFKs medical records. – Richard Reeves
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer