In a new memoir, renowned historian Doris Kearns Goodwin relives the turbulent decade, her late husband’s role in the JFK and LBJ administrations, and the time period’s lessons for today.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, left, works with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office of the White House, May 15, 1968. | Yoichi Okamoto/LBJ LibraryMichael Hirsh is the former foreign editor and chief diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek, and the former national editor forDoris Kearns Goodwin, the preeminent historian and chronicler of presidential lives, had some advice for Joe Biden when he took office: Skip the soaring Kennedy-style rhetoric and give more fireside chats, like FDR did.
You say this book means more to you than anything you’ve ever written. Obviously, that has a lot to do with working on it with your late husband, Richard Goodwin, but is it also because of the extraordinary history you two lived through together in the 1960s, even though you didn’t meet until the decade was over?
Clockwise from top, left: A bus bearing Freedom Riders leaves the station as they resumed their rides through the South in Montgomery, Ala, May 15, 1961; A group protesting alleged racial segregation in the Chicago public schools, sits down in the offices of Benjamin W. Willis, Chicago Superintendent of Schools, July 10, 1963; Civil Rights March on Washington D.C., August 1963. | AP; U.S.
The Biden campaign is in something of a state of some confusion right now. The president believes he’s not getting enough credit for his achievements. Have you advised Biden on this? Your husband remarks at one point in the book that people have a grim view of the Johnson era today — with the Vietnam war, the assassinations of King and the Kennedys and the violence in the streets — but that what they miss is the exhilaration and sense of hope.
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