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Learning from past presidents - Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father and of their shared love of baseball.

What did Erik Erikson teach Goodwin when she was in a class he was teaching at Harvard graduate school?

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