That may be true, but the political prediction of “Peace for our time” is still one of the worst.
“I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940
The Japanese had other ideas.
There were a number of pundits including Tom Pettit at NBC and Sam Donaldson at ABC who believed in 1984 that Ronald Reagen felt he accomplished all that he had set out to do in his first term, and wouldn’t run for reelection.
Gotcha covered.
And they weren’t. Once Japan attacked the United States, it wasn’t a foreign war.
“… a beginning invasion by the state into the personal life of the individual, represent a taking away of individual responsibility, a weakening of national caliber, a definite step toward either communism or totalitarianism.”
“…behind it will come other government programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day as Norman Thomas said we will wake to find that we have socialism … We are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.”
Awesome predictions in the early 60s by the AMA and Ronald Reagan, respectively, on the horrors that would befall if Medicare was enacted.
The late Christopher Hitchens was a gold mine of wonderful predictions. Perhaps his best moments were in the 1980’s, when he kept assuring his readers that the Soviet Union was riding a wave of economic success and cruising to an easy victory over the evil, American-style capitalists. For instance: “It is quite likely that historians will record this unhappy period not as an age of Reagan at all, but as a footnote to the age of Michail Gorbachev.”
An yet people still praise this guy for his logic and intelligence.
In 1972, someone wrote a book called “How McGovern Won the Presidency and Why the Polls Were Wrong.”
Damn – it seems to be out of print! “We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.” 
Surprised no predictions about Obama’s policies, for example that he would immediately get us out and keep us out of Middle Eastern wars.
Well, he’s still very much poised to take away everybody’s guns away, I know that. Any minute now. Y’all should probably stock up on guns and ammo while it’s still legal !
Who made that prediction?
It was the age of Gorbachev. Just not quite the way Hitchens thought.
The end of history predictions post Cold War were quite off.
Shelby Steele still gets talking-head gigs despite writing and bolding titling this book: http://www.amazon.com/Bound-Man-Excited-About-Obama/dp/1416559175
I’m not a big fan of Fukuyama’s thesis, but it was widely misunderstood and misrepresented. He never meant that historical events would cease, but rather a different point - that there was no longer a serious ideological competition at the cutting edge of human social evolution.
It’s as true as it ever was (assuming it was ever true).
Aug. 26, 2014 – President Barack Obama has again emphasized that U.S. combat troops will not be sent back into Iraq.