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At the same time that he was devising a response to the Afghanistan incursion, Carter had to confront a much more acute crisis in Iran, where he had brought the greatest disaster of his presidency dow...

William E. Leuchtenburg

At the same time that he was devising a response to the Afghanistan incursion, Carter had to confront a much more acute crisis in Iran, where he had brought the greatest disaster of his presidency dow...

The final word belongs to one of Truman’s aides, George Elsey. It’s all well and good to come along later and say the bomb was a horrible thing, he commented subsequently. The whole goddamn war was a...

William E. Leuchtenburg

The final word belongs to one of Truman’s aides, George Elsey. It’s all well and good to come along later and say the bomb was a horrible thing, he commented subsequently. The whole goddamn war was a...

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William Edward Leuchtenburg ( LUCK-tuhn-berg; September 28, 1922 – January 28, 2025) was an American historian who was the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a leading scholar of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Witnesses to his whoppers realized that Reagan was not lying but had persuaded himself of the validity of his tales. He finds it next to impossible to say anything that is not in some crucial way untr...

William E. Leuchtenburg

Witnesses to his whoppers realized that Reagan was not lying but had persuaded himself of the validity of his tales. He finds it next to impossible to say anything that is not in some crucial way untr...