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
people , tease , me
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'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.

Doris Kearns Goodwin
bully , somewhat , diminished
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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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exception , being , wife
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I've been to the White House a number of times.

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been , white , house
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My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

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books , written , strong
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A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

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lot , times , people
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Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

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once , president , gets
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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

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past , simply , prism
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As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

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trust
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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
technology
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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.

Doris Kearns Goodwin
learning
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That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin
leadership
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Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Doris Kearns Goodwin
humor