Brilliant at it. I mean, you would take train rides around the country. Six weeks in the spring and fall and he talked about simple language. He said the Harvard Audis think i talk into folksy language, but i know i reached them. Speak softly and carry a big stick. It summed up his entire administration. He then gave Maxwell House a slogan good until the very next stop. He was able with his relationship, but he was so interesting. He had a mida shave. When the barbarous shaving hand he is answering their questions and they say the barber has to keep up with him as hes moving around. He understood the press was an important channel for him to reach the public and so he would read their articles ahead of time. Investigative reporters would be able to criticize him. They would criticize them. He didnt have the relationship of the press that he had so the president was drifting and the progressives were moving further forward than teddy was at the time. It was a desire to be back in office
Something that happens. When his father died he just got involved in activities. When his wife died in the life is gone out, he died he would never marry again, he goes to the badlands and is just on a horse for 10 hours a day. He said finally bit that night because constant activity prevented over thought and then he did come back and eventually marry and have a fulfilling marriage with edith,s girlfriend and monitor as much as they couldve loved anybody. The little girl who was born when his wife died i think represented the dead wife he couldnt remember and didnt want to remember because he had to move forward. Its a terrible thing in some ways. So we did give ally to his sister for a while but edith, the new wife in old friend brought her into the family. In his memoir he never mentioned the name. And comprehensible and just the opposite of somebody who wants to believe the more you talk about the people you loved, the more you keep them alive, he just had to keep moving forward. W
[applause] we are very honor today to have Doris Kearns Goodwin is our special guest. Before i give her background for a moment and start some questions, how many people here have read a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin . Okay, all right. How many people have read two books . Three books . For . Five . Six . All of them. Okay. How many people are going to buy her book today and get it autographed . Okay. So Doris Kearns Goodwin is obviously a leading president ial scholars. She is a person who has written books on some of the most important president and today well talk largely about her new book, the bully pulpit, which is about Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard taft and a bit about the muckrakers. Before we do so, a little more background about her another book shes written. Shes of course written works on lincoln, eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and a book on Lyndon Johnson with whom she worked when she was a white house fellow. She is from brooklyn. [cheers and applause] a big fan of t
What happened when teddy was president , what he understood, the one in taft didnt understand, which is the president the past had he defined the word, a bully pulpit to educate the country in the most power in a way the president has and he was brilliant at it. I mean, you would take train rides around the country. Six weeks in the spring and fall and he talked about simple language. He said the Harvard Audis think i talk into folksy language, but i know i reached them. Speak softly and carry a big stick. It summed up his entire administration. He then gave Maxwell House a slogan, good until the very next stop. He was able with his relationship, but he was so interesting. He had a mida shave. When the barbarous shaving hand, he is answering their questions and they say the barber has to keep up with him as hes moving around. He understood the press was an important channel for him to reach the public and so he would read their articles ahead of time. Investigative reporters would be a
Still thinks he is a bit of and not, but at the same time says that he is growing as mandela grew. As i said, at the end of the conversation i was shocked because she said that he is really causing a big stir in parliament, and her expectation is that he may eventually take over this predominately white party, which is the only serious Opposition Party to the African National congress to it if he might take to the democratic space fact, the democratic alliance. Ibook just at what i was trying to a moment ago. We are dealing with a story that is not just complex but filled with contradictions. There is no one thing that is necessarily true. In my own book i see mandela as having many faces, played many roles, including the role of Nelson Mandela, which he invented. This man was in place. He played creon in antigone, and he played Abraham Lincoln in a performance. He was an actor on some levels, and he was able to bring those talents and those skills into politics without losing a beat a