What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. (William S. Paley)

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William S. Paley

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