H. W. Brands Quotes
I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.
Brands, H. W. "Q&A with H. W. Brands." C-SPAN, 15 Oct. 2000.
Welliver was the first of the American presidential speechwriters. President Harding was the one who used the term in public.
Jefferson wrote more on more subjects than any other president in American history. For exa,ple, he wrote more letters during his presidency than any other president including the modern ones who had word processors and large staffs. So Jefferson wrote on almost every subject and expressed so many ideas that Lincoln could make this statement.
This appears to be one of the first uses of the word "United" with respect to what was to become the United States.
The Bing Dictionary defines millenarian as relating to or believing in doctrines such as Jesus Christ's Second Coming, a final conflict between good and evil, or the end of the world, especially those based on the Book of Revelation
Henry William Brands Jr. is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. He has authored 30 books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
