American - Historian | January 4, 1943 -
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.
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I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
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My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
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I've been to the White House a number of times.
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I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
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Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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