He of course will be remembered above all for his challenge to the Vietnam War when he ran for president ... and I think helped bring the war to an end.

Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

I think he did challenge the Democrats, unlike any modern Republican presidential candidate, on the question of the basic direction of American government, particularly as it dealt with domestic policies and domestic economics, ... And it did shift the grounds of the debate.

The first major congressional challenge to executive leadership in the Vietnam War, the Cooper-Church amendment, was proposed then.

At least when Ronald Reagan rode off in the movies into the fiery sunset, he didn't take us with him

We have a lot of problems confronting our nation: the possibility of war, the growing threat in Korea, a serious threat of terrorism clearly around,