“Roosevelt and Root deputized Taft to inform the Holy See that the United States would purchase the lands for a fair price… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Wherever a tension needed the solvent of good-will, or friction the oil of benevolence; wherever suspicion needed the antidote of frankness, or… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Don’t hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think that's still what the American Dream means: that with perseverance, with hard work, you can become something, that the classes won't prevent… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Simon Cameron: “I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
