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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “With “not the slightest sign of an end to the strike,” Roosevelt readied a second plan – the creation of a Blue Ribbon Commission to investigate the causes of the strike and make recommendations for both executive and legislative action. Scrambling once again to find warrant for such intervention, he argued he was empowered by his constitutional duty to report to Congress on the state of the Union.”

201. “With “not the slightest sign of an end to the strike,” Roosevelt readied a second plan – the creation of a Blue Ribbon Commission to investigate the causes of the strike and make recommendations for both executive and legislative action. Scrambling once again to find warrant for such intervention, he argued he was empowered by his constitutional duty to report to Congress on the state of the Union.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “Kennedy’s death had unexpectedly brought fulfillment of his greatest ambition in circumstances that must have inspired awesome guilt and doubts.”

202. “Kennedy’s death had unexpectedly brought fulfillment of his greatest ambition in circumstances that must have inspired awesome guilt and doubts.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “If I wasn’t busy,” she replied, “I’d go crazy.”

203. “If I wasn’t busy,” she replied, “I’d go crazy.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.”

204. “As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “Generations of historians have agreed with Holmes, pointing to Roosevelt’s self-assured, congenial, optimistic temperament as the keystone to his leadership success.”

205. “Generations of historians have agreed with Holmes, pointing to Roosevelt’s self-assured, congenial, optimistic temperament as the keystone to his leadership success.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “The painful apprehension within the administration mirrored the fears experienced in hundreds of thousands of homes throughout the country.”

206. “The painful apprehension within the administration mirrored the fears experienced in hundreds of thousands of homes throughout the country.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “The habit of mobility had become ingrained.”

207. “The habit of mobility had become ingrained.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “Things are certainly kaleidoscopic,” Roosevelt telegraphed.”

208. “Things are certainly kaleidoscopic,” Roosevelt telegraphed.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “Such men of “towering” egos, in whom ambition is divorced from the people’s best interests, were not men to lead a democracy; they were despots.”

209. “Such men of “towering” egos, in whom ambition is divorced from the people’s best interests, were not men to lead a democracy; they were despots.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “Still, Roosevelt noted, it was “not always easy to strike the just middle,” and he inevitably made mistakes.”

210. “Still, Roosevelt noted, it was “not always easy to strike the just middle,” and he inevitably made mistakes.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “Gather firsthand information, ask questions.”

211. “Gather firsthand information, ask questions.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “So surely did Lincoln midwife this process of social transformation that we look back at the United States before Abraham Lincoln and after him.”

212. “So surely did Lincoln midwife this process of social transformation that we look back at the United States before Abraham Lincoln and after him.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “By the summer of 1933, Eleanor’s melancholy had passed. ‘The times of depression are often felt as gaps,’ a psychologist has written, ‘temporary losses of certainty or identity which leave us feeling empty.’ Seen in this light, Eleanor’s despondency was the intervening period of chaos between the breakup of her old identity as teacher and political activist in New York State and the establishment of a new identity in the White House.”

213. “By the summer of 1933, Eleanor’s melancholy had passed. ‘The times of depression are often felt as gaps,’ a psychologist has written, ‘temporary losses of certainty or identity which leave us feeling empty.’ Seen in this light, Eleanor’s despondency was the intervening period of chaos between the breakup of her old identity as teacher and political activist in New York State and the establishment of a new identity in the White House.”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “His experience taught him what every party boss has understood through the ages: the practical machinery of the party organization – the distribution of ballots, the checklists, the rounding up of voters – was as crucial as the broad ideology laid out in the platform. The same intimate involvement in campaign organization that he displayed in these early years would characterize all of Lincoln’s future campaigns.”

214. “His experience taught him what every party boss has understood through the ages: the practical machinery of the party organization – the distribution of ballots, the checklists, the rounding up of voters – was as crucial as the broad ideology laid out in the platform. The same intimate involvement in campaign organization that he displayed in these early years would characterize all of Lincoln’s future campaigns.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “For nearly two years, under Lyndon Johnson’s domestic leadership, Republicans and Democrats had toiled together to engineer the greatest advances in civil rights since the Civil War and to launch a comprehensive, progressive vision of American society that would leave a permanent imprint on the national landscape.”

215. “For nearly two years, under Lyndon Johnson’s domestic leadership, Republicans and Democrats had toiled together to engineer the greatest advances in civil rights since the Civil War and to launch a comprehensive, progressive vision of American society that would leave a permanent imprint on the national landscape.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote: “In a passage directed at abolitionists as well as temperance reformers, he had observed that it was the nature of man, when told that he should be “shunned and despised,” and condemned as the author “of all the vice and misery and crime in the land,” to “retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head and his heart.”

216. “In a passage directed at abolitionists as well as temperance reformers, he had observed that it was the nature of man, when told that he should be “shunned and despised,” and condemned as the author “of all the vice and misery and crime in the land,” to “retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head and his heart.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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