William E. Leuchtenburg Quote

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 horrible thing.

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 horrible thing.

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About William E. Leuchtenburg

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.