Winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. She is the author of seven books and is appeared on cspan and book tv over 60 times. She is well known for her work on Abraham Lincoln and her book team of rivals with the inspiration for Stephen Spear spielberg film. She earned her phd at harvard, we will reair her indepth appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took your phone calls. We will show you discussions from her book leadership in Turbulent Times and bully pulpit. We will start with january 1, 1995 appearance on the cspan series book notes. In the hourlong interview she discussed frank gooden Eleanor Roosevelt and the homefront during world war ii, her book, no ordinary time one the posted price for ordinary history here is historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either Frank Franklin Elinor Roosevelt a couple questions after all the work he did on the book, what would it be. With eleanor i would like to understand why she was una
I know she still loved him why didnt you do it . But for him i would want to understand why he could not him share himself more fully with anyone the most charming and thoughtful personality but underneath there was such reserve in him and i want to understand why he couldnt give himself more to the people who loved him. And to understand not only franklin and eleanor but in many cases to understand the whole extended family that surrounded them in the white house and that these two characters really needed other people to meet those needs left over at the end of their troubled marriage so the second family quarters of the white house was like a hotel and there was about seven People Living there all intimate friends that was new and fun for me. Cspan if you had ask a question about personal relationships that theyve had with other people, who would you be most interested in . Frankly it would be franklin. Not just because he had an affair with her and almost broke up eleanors marriage
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Welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. Im kim brunhuber, were following Breaking News out of israel. Where that countrys military is now mobilizing, including its reserves, in response to this mornings Surprise Rocket Attack from gaza. The Security Cabinet is expected to meet in the coming hours and israels president says the country is facing a very difficult moment. The attacks kban early today as many people were still sleeping. Hundreds of rocks have been fired into israel with no letup so far. Israeli Officials Say there were multiple injuries, some serious, and at least one fatality. Israels Defense Minister just proclaimed israel will win this war. The number of militants have infiltrated israel from gaza. Hadas gold joins us from jerusalem. The scale of the attacks is just extraordinary, whats the latest . Reporter this is completely unprecedented and this is war, kim, something that israel has not seen the likes of this so
What excursions do you think today . For me, as a lover of industrial tourism, i myself often visit enterprises, the most unusual are not so much excursions, but additional offers that you can try as part of a visit to an enterprise, for example, there is such a granite enterprise, it is located in mikashevichi as part of an excursion you can dive to the bottom. One of the largest granite quarries in europe, see real waterfalls there, the landscapes there are very different from the typical belarus that we see, and this is the work of man, too, for example, you can ride on belaz if you really want to, at the tractor factory you can take part in assembling a tractor, and enterprises are now conducting various interactive events, this. Its more of a tool for popularizing our brands, a tool for Building Trust in our products, not all Belarusian Enterprises will be of interest to a foreigner, they are interested in those enterprises that glorify our country throughout the world, Company Ag