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In 1967, Kearns went to Washington, D.C., as a White House Fellow during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. [17] Johnson initially expressed interest in hiring the young intern as his Oval Office assistant, but after an article by Kearns appeared in The New Republic laying out a scenario for Johnson's removal from office over his conduct of the war in Vietnam, she was, instead, assigned to ...
Goodwin was married to Sandra Leverant from 1958 until her death in 1972. [3] [2] They had one son, Richard. [2] [3] On December 14, 1975, [23] he married writer and historian Doris Kearns, [3] [24] with whom he had two children: Michael and Joseph. [2] Goodwin died at his home in Concord, Massachusetts, on May 20, 2018, after a brief bout with ...
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis included Billings as a guest at a party marking the birthdays of her children Caroline (21st) and John Jr. (18th) in 1978. [68] In 1987, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin described how Billings structured her interviews with him. She had to submit questions in advance.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winner and presidential historian, for “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” with David Von Drehle, 7 p.m. June 12, Unity Temple on ...
Aug. 17 — Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Pulitzer-Prize winning historian's books include "Wait Till Next Year," an acclaimed memoir of growing up in the 1950s in New York while in love with her ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Laurie Anderson and the president of the Harlem School of the Arts, James C. Horton, are being honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The academy announced Friday that Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize winning historian, is receiving a Gold Medal for biography.
Doris Kearns Goodwin's next book is a work of history that's also close to home. The Pulitzer Prize winner's "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” is a reflection on her ...
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys is a 1987 book written by Doris Kearns Goodwin and published by Simon & Schuster. It covers two Boston Irish American families, the Kennedys and the Fitzgeralds, from John F. Fitzgerald's baptism to John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inauguration. Upon its release, the book's insightfulness and detail were generally ...