RootsTech 2016: Doris Kearns Goodwin

RootsTech 2016 Doris Kearns Goodwin with Ambassadors

Here are some of my takeaways from this session:

• We can learn from others' struggles.
• Stories take you places you could never go.
• She loved listening to stories of LBJ.
• Getting to know the inner person behind the public persona.
• Fascination with the US Presidency ... in her DNA
• She found out that 15 US Presidents are her distant cousins
• Importance of writing letters
• Roosevelt and Churchill in the White House
• Journals/diaries allow us to see the moments in our ancestor's lives
• FDR gave hope to the people.
• One is not dead ... just gone before.
• Check out the movie: Lincoln
• We live on in the memory of others.
• "He was a hero. He spoke with a voice of thunder; he laughed like the sunrise and his deeds were strong as the rock…" - Leo Tolstoy of Abraham Lincoln

Michael Leavitt and Doris Kearns Goodwin, RootsTech 2016

Due to contractual rights, the keynote for Doris was not recorded. However, there is a short interview you can watch here:

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