She started out in brooklyn. And then she wound up here on long island what that rockville center, here we go, but shes a red sax fan, although that wasnt true in her younger days. You want to learn about her and her father that she wrote a wonderful book. Whats it called . Next year wait till next year about baseball. Its a terrific book and and many others she went to colby then she went to harvard got her various degrees up to her phd from harvard taught at harvard for a while then got into politics. So to speak staffer lbj and other i think youll say a few words about this. Lbj was really her focus for quite a while then she got into writing and has written all these wonderful books i have offered her. Blurb anytime she wants it my blurb for her will be if Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote a book a biography of bullwinkle. Id buy it and read it in one night. So let me introduce to you doris kearns cooper. Thank you. Im so glad to be with all of you today, and im really glad i can talk to
Her late husband, dick goodwin. When i would be writing about teddy or Franklin Roosevelt or abraham lincoln, i would call the other president s my guys cause i felt so close to them after all those years. But now this was my guy. [margaret] it revisits the 1960s through their lives and work. As a speech writer for john f. Kennedy [kennedy] liberty and Progress Walk hand in hand. [margaret] lyndon b. Johnson [johnson] and we shall overcome. [margaret] and Bobby Kennedy. [bobby] he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. [margaret] dick goodwin wrote some of the most memorable speeches of the civil rights era. Always when he wrote a speech, it wasnt just necessarily to make pretty language, it was to provoke people to action. [margaret] later, he helped draft al gores 2000 concession speech. This is america and we put country before party. [margaret] can we learn from the past to help us navigate todays challenges . [doris] were in a very tough time right now, but these other times were even
cause i felt so close to them after all those years. But now this was my guy. [margaret] it revisits the 1960s through their lives and work. As a speech writer for john f. Kennedy [kennedy] liberty and Progress Walk hand in hand. [margaret] lyndon b. Johnson [johnson] and we shall overcome. [margaret] and Bobby Kennedy. [bobby] he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. [margaret] dick goodwin wrote some of the most memorable speeches of the civil rights era. Always when he wrote a speech, it wasnt just necessarily to make pretty language, it was to provoke people to action. [margaret] later, he helped draft al gores 2000 concession speech. This is america and we put country before party. [margaret] can we learn from the past to help us navigate todays challenges . [doris] were in a very tough time right now, but these othetimes were even rougher. [margaret] what does Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin say now . [announcer] firing line with Margaret Hoover is made possibl
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