Doris Kearns Goodwin: President's ambition must be "for the country," not themselves

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🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks to Chuck about her latest book "Leadership in Turbulent Times" and how the "family tree" of presidential history influenced Oval Office successors.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
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0:09.8	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press Podcast.
0:11.9	My guess today is Doris Kern's Goodwood, Presidential Historian and a long time friend
0:16.0	of the show.
0:17.3	Doris is out with a new book, leadership in turbulent times, but new.
0:21.0	She's not talking about our current political climate.
0:23.1	Okay, maybe a little.
0:24.2	The book actually follows four US presidents, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt
0:28.4	and LBJ.
0:29.4	And their leadership styles and lessons.
0:32.1	Doris, welcome back to 1947 and the Meet the Press Podcast.
0:37.8	Let me start with why this book right now, this almost strikes me as if you were working
0:44.6	on something else, you said, we need something else.
0:47.8	Did it?
0:48.8	No, I've been working on it for five years, but it was a turbulent time even in Washington
0:52.5	broken before I began.
0:54.4	But most importantly, I've been studying leadership for 50 years.
0:57.0	I'm hard to believe, but true.
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