Salon@615-Doris Kearns Goodwin in Conversation with Jon Meacham

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[@ronaldo86]

wonderful, both awesome authors

[@ImranSahir1]

Whenever these two get together they light up the room. Jon is so intelligently hilarious, he can make anything sound funny. I can spend hours listening to these two.

[@manuelahrasky8472]

As as Australian and a psychiatrist, I have become rather obsessed with American politics in this Trumpian era (for where the US goes, sadly, Australia tends to follow), so I have become familiar with the wonderful Jon Meacham from his appearances on MSNBC. But I did not know of the equally wonderful DKG until I saw her on Morning Joe yesterday. And now to find this fabulous pair in conversation! What a treat! Thank you for making this brilliant conversation available. I will be stalking both of them on the net for more. And reading their books.

[@deepaknayakmanel8581]

Same exact thoughts!!

[@charlessalmans4496]

Wonderful interview. Meacham is great at managing the conversation and Doris Kearns Goodwin is fabulous.

[@firstlady...]

I am in love with Jon Meacham ❤️

[@JohnBaker-wf2vn]

The malice of politics has made me feel miserable.(I am paraphrasing this) So,so true this is.

[@2legit64]

Both of these people are at the top of their game and are absolutely delightful. DKG has been my favorite historian ever since I read No Ordinary Time. That book educated me more on the Roosevelts and WWII than I ever learned in school. I now equally admire and loathe Franklin Roosevelt. He may have been a good president, but he was a deeply flawed man who was spoiled and selfish and constantly needed to be admired by the people around him. The way he treated the women in his life once they were no longer useful to him was maddening. The Bully Pulpit was very interesting as well. The relationship between Taft and TR was truly lovely until TR ruined it with his own selfishness and arrogance. I didn't know that Nellie Taft and Edith Roosevelt were not friends until I read this book. I just assumed because the husbands were close, the wives would be, too. Because of DKG bring Nellie to life, she is one of the first ladies that I talk the most about when I give presentations. She truly was ahead of her time.

[@annwags]

When did the Mac Neil Lehrer News Hour launch? Why doens't the PBS weeknightly news program count?

[@LineMountain]

The problem with Bush is that he thought people were actually voting for him. People were actually voting for a 3rd Reagan term and instead Bush fractured the Republican Party and lost in ‘92.

[@rsr789]

Republicans mentally fractured themselves by voting for Reagan in the first place.

[@rsr789]

Perhaps AI will help decipher some of that handwriting...

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