Doris Kearns Goodwin & Her Marriage to a Presidential Speechwriter

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Presidential historian, author, and former sports journalist Doris Kearns Goodwin goes on the record with host Rick Wilson and gives an inside look at what it was like to be behind the scenes at the Whitehouse during Kennedy's aspirational "Camelot Era" and into LBJ's "Great Society" period. As the wife of the late Dick Goodwin, the speechwriter who penned LBJ's "We Shall Overcome" speech, Doris remains deeply involved in American politics and served as a fellow for LBJ's administration. Follow Doris Kearns Goodwin on X at @DorisKGoodwin and buy her book “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” at her website – doriskearnsgoodwin.com – or at fine bookstores everywhere. Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X or at https://bsky.app/profile/therickwilson.bsky.social at Bluesky, and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow us on X at @ProjectLincoln. And please subscribe, rate and review this podcast, thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.6	Abraham Lincoln was called a liberator, and he said, don't call me that.
0:29.8	It was the anti-slavery movement and the Union soldiers that did it all.
0:33.9	And even at the turn of the 20th century, the progressive movement was there in the settlement houses in the social gospel of religion before Teddy Roosevelt came on the scene.
0:42.8	And then the civil rights movement was essential for everything, of course, in the 60s.
0:46.8	And I think citizens just have to believe right now that they have the power.
0:50.8	And that's where change has always taken place.
0:53.3	And it demands that you have a belief that collective energy can make a difference.
0:58.7	Your task will not be an easy one.
1:01.1	Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hardened.
1:04.8	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.
1:08.5	There is the United States of America.
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