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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.

Which president was elected in an upset victory and then appointed three much more qualified members (who lost the general election) into his cabinet?

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