About this episode

Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her personal history and insights from the 1960s with David M. Rubenstein.

It’s been said that if you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t really there, but when Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and her late husband, Dick, started to go through his papers from his time as one of the men behind JFK’s New Frontier, co-designer of LBJ’s Great Society, and RFK’s close advisor, that revolutionary decade became as tangible to the couple as it was 60 years ago. Goodwin, who also worked for Johnson, joins David M. Rubenstein for a conversation on historical r...

People in this episode

Host: David M. Rubenstein

Guest: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics covered

• 1960s history
• Pulitzer Prize
• JFK
• LBJ
• personal history
• political advisors

Keywords

• 1960s
• history
• Doris Kearns Goodwin
• JFK
• LBJ
• politics
• Great Society
• New Frontier

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: JFK’s New Frontier, LBJ’s Great Society

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