Presidential Power with Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pantsuit Politics
Sarah & Beth
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this year, we were honored to speak with legendary historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin about her latest book. This conversation was a highlight of our year and also still feels full of wisdom for us as we head into a second Trump administration and consider presidential power.
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:02.7 | This is Sarah Stewart-Holland. |
| 0:15.2 | This is Beth Silvers. |
| 0:16.7 | You're listening to Pantsu Politics, |
| 0:18.6 | where we take a different approach to the news. |
| 0:35.3 | Thank you for being with us today. Our team is enjoying time with our families this week as we celebrate the holidays, but we wanted to return with you to one of our favorite conversations from this year. We spoke with legendary historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin this spring about her new book and the way her life and her husband's life intertwined with so much presidential history. |
| 0:56.0 | As we ourselves are living another tumultuous, historic time in presidential politics, it seemed |
| 1:01.2 | like a wonderful conversation to revisit. Plus, Doris is, unsurprisingly, such an absolute delight. |
| 1:07.7 | We know that you will love hearing this conversation for the first time or again. So, |
| 1:12.0 | enjoy Doris Kearns-Gudwin. |
| 1:13.3 | We are truly honored to have Doris Kearns-Goodwin with us today. Your new book, An Unfinished Love Story, A Personal History of the 1960s, is, as it says, a personal history. And because of that, we thought it might be fun if you'll humor us to tell you our personal Doris Kearns-Goodwin stories. |
| 1:41.5 | I would love to hear them. Is it the ones we trot out at cocktail parties? |
| 1:45.5 | Yes. |
| 1:46.0 | We've each had a very memorable experience with you. |
| 1:48.3 | Mine was in the green room at Morning Joe. |
| 1:50.9 | I think that Sarah was still in hair and makeup. |
| 1:54.2 | And you were just coming into the green room. |
| 1:57.1 | And an MSNBC anchor who was also kind of darting from hair and makeup. |
| 2:01.9 | I remember she had rollers in her hair and the big smock on came up to you in the hallway. |
| 2:06.8 | This was like maybe January, February, early days of the Trump administration. |
| 2:12.3 | Oh, wow. |
| 2:13.1 | And she said to you, I just need to know if we're going to be okay. |
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