I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.