"While the Nixon Presidency induced a momentary sense of congressional unity, a more skillful President could readily restore the customary situation where members of Congress felt more solidarity with a President of their own party than with colleagues of the opposite party"
Arthur M. Schlesinger was an American historian who taught at Harvard and helped pioneer social and urban history. He was born on 1888-02-27 and died on 1965-10-30. He was the father of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.