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• Doris Kearns Goodwin:

  As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped ar

• Doris Kearns Goodwin:

  My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kenne

• Doris Kearns Goodwin:

  I've been to the White House a number of times.

• Doris Kearns Goodwin:

  I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothi

• Doris Kearns Goodwin:

  Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty

• Doris Kearns Goodwin:

  The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes

• Doris Kearns Goodwin:

  I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comme

• Doris Kearns Goodwin:

  I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only

• Doris Kearns Goodwin:

  We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna

• Doris Kearns Goodwin:

  Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the tw