It's the Brian Laird show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone.

We are delighted to have the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin joining us.

The renowned author of books about FDR, L.B.J, and Abraham Lincoln has a new one that is both

a historical reckoning with the 1960s and a personal reckoning with the loss of her husband of

42 years, Dick Dick Goodwin who died in 2018.

His contribution to the 1960s, especially as a speech writer for President's Kennedy and Johnson,

also Robert Kennedy and the anti-Vietnam War Senator

Eugene McCarthy, who primary Johnson in 1968 before Johnson dropped out of his own re-election

campaign.

Among many notable accomplishments, Dick Goodwin coined the term,

The Great Society that Johnson's progressive social policies are known by to this day.

Shortly will play an excerpt from what is sometimes known as the Great Society

speech delivered by Johnson at the University of Michigan in 1964. The book is called

an unfinished love story, a personal history. The book is called An Unfinished Love Story,

A Personal History of the 1960s.

Doris Kearns Goodwin also has a New York event

and book signing tonight at 730 at the 92nd Street Y.

Doris and honor to have you on again.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Oh, I'm so glad to be with you again,

Baryan. Thank you for doing this.

Would you build on my intro there to further introduce our listeners to your husband and his place in history because you're a household name but he was not?

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