1.   Yet history records that the nation was not waiting for a programme of national reconstruction.

2.   Bill Clinton wants history to record him as the education president.

3.   All of us recognize, and history will record with gratitude, his important contribution.

4.   But history will record that it was the Reagan administration that turned an occasional tactic into a strategic weapon.

5.   But history has recorded the decay of democracies as well as the blissful ripening of ours.

6.   But now, with a Taliban victory, history may record that the Communists achieved exactly the opposite.

7.   But will history record it as another watershed moment?

8.   History may very well record that the closest election in American history led to an extraordinary rethinking of the fundamentals of American politics.

9.   History will also record that the limiting of this deal to the deposition in the unrelated civil case tracks the impeachment saga.

10.   History will record it as deadlocked.