Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their most exuberant companion. He never fired their imaginations or made them laugh as their mother could, but he was unfailingly interested in them, sympathetic, confiding, entering into their lives in ways few fathers ever do. It was a though he was in league with them.

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.