Charles Krauthammer appeared on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s 700 Club yesterday in an interview with the show’s co-host Pat Robertson.

Krauthammer is known to millions of nightly television viewers as an insightful political analyst and conservative commentator on the Fox News nightly program, “Special Report with Bret Baier.”

The wide-ranging interview touched on many topics in Krauthammer’s new book, “Things That Matter.” As the interview was drawing to a close, Robertson asked the doctor, “Do you think America’s going to make it?” Krauthammer responded, “I think one of the things you’ll find in the book ultimately is a kind of optimism about America. I’ve always had this sense of a providential hand. You know, we are a country that at the end of the 1700s was a little island of Western Civilization. Cut off, small number of people, and we developed the greatest generation of political geniuses in the history of mankind who give us the Constitution. The next century, we needed a Lincoln, we get a Lincoln.

“In the Twentieth, we needed an FDR in the Depression and in the Second World War. In the second half of the century, we needed a Reagan, and we got a Reagan. Now I can’t explain all this. In some sense, I think it comes out of the basic common sense and decency of the American people, who one way or the other find a way. You know Churchill once said, ‘the Americans always do the right thing after they have tried everything else.’ So here we are trying everything else, but in the end, I think we’re going to do the right thing.”

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