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Doris Kearns Goodwin
American
Historian
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Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.
Doris Kearns Goodwin,
American
Historian
#Public
#Support
#Will
#War
#Progress
#Economy
#Afghanistan
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
Doris Kearns Goodwin,
American
Historian
#Past
#Self
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
Doris Kearns Goodwin,
American
Historian
#People
#Popular
#Leadership
#Opinion
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
Doris Kearns Goodwin,
American
Historian
#President
#History