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 Read Quote
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys – so far. I’m interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they’ve lost… I don’t want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
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. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
