Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in. Doris Kearns Goodwin More Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin More Quotes From Doris Kearns Goodwin Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he - as a character - was even larger than his presidency. Being able to get to know him well, that firsthand relationship with this large character, I think is what drew me to writing books about presidents. Doris Kearns Goodwin writing war book Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. Doris Kearns Goodwin fear-not library Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself. Doris Kearns Goodwin new-experiences personality expectations The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. Doris Kearns Goodwin filters self past I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously. Doris Kearns Goodwin wife who-i-am mother Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it. Doris Kearns Goodwin motivation retirement sports Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. Doris Kearns Goodwin president together country There is a sense of feeling larger than your own life when you're in some common mission together. You have to hope it's not going to take a war to bring that back to America again. I think another time when it seemed to be here was in the early 1960s. Doris Kearns Goodwin war america thinking People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. Doris Kearns Goodwin made people enemy I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment. Doris Kearns Goodwin gun parent thinking (from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic. Doris Kearns Goodwin hay president diaries As much research as you think you're doing, you're going to mess up, without a question. Doris Kearns Goodwin doing-you research thinking all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete. Doris Kearns Goodwin team baseball father He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. Doris Kearns Goodwin taft arrogance littles I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities. Doris Kearns Goodwin figures responsibility wish Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think you took the right approach, then you just absorb the criticism, but you don't change your mind. Doris Kearns Goodwin mind people thinking We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that. Doris Kearns Goodwin leader giving people Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep. Doris Kearns Goodwin aspect essentials men I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others. Doris Kearns Goodwin dozen book Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true. Doris Kearns Goodwin space character thinking
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