5 Quotes & Sayings By Lynne Olson

Lynne Olson is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of five books, including "The Diary of Anne Frank," which was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Anne Bancroft. She is also the author of "Abigail Adams," "Theodore Roosevelt," "James Madison," which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2000, and "George Washington." Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Globe, and other publications. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Best American Essays. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Columbia University in 1978 and an honorary doctorate from Harvard University in 2004.

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After Rep. Martin Sweeney of Ohio delivered a scathing attack on the Roosevelt administration for allegedly using conscription as a way to get the United States into the war, Rep. Beverly Vincent of Kentucky, who was next to Sweeney, loudly muttered that he refused “to sit by a traitor.” Sweeney swung at Vincent, who responded with a sharp right to the jaw that sent Sweeney staggering. It was, said the House doorkeeper, the best punch thrown by a member of Congress in fifty years. . Lynne Olson
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In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage. Lynne Olson
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If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right. Lynne Olson
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In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom! Lynne Olson