FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.
From Doris Kearns Goodwin
Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.
A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
I've been to the White House a number of times.
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
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