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The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: January 4th, 1943

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