He says the key for getting out of Afghanistan is to gain the trust of the Afghan people and to explain the exit strategy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Montpelier is now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

This is presidential historian and author Robert Dallek: "Once the public turns against a war, once it is convinced that you are embarked upon if not a losing enterprise then something that is going to produce a quagmire, it creates tremendous political difficulties for the president and it undermines his credibility, trust in his judgment and his ability to put across his domestic reforms,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.09