![]() ![]() She was serving as a White House Fellow in 1967, when her opposition to President Johnson's foreign policy led her to co-author an article for The New Republic entitled "How to Remove LBJ in 1968." Only a few months later, she became a special assistant to President Johnson in the White House. She won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and earned a Ph.D. While in college, she undertook summer internships at the U.S. from Colby College, Maine, graduating magna cum laude. Her invalid mother encouraged her love of books, while her father shared her love of baseball she traces her interest in history to her childhood experience recording the fortunes of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Doris Kearns Goodwin 1995 Pulitzer Prize winner in historyĭoris Kearns was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Rockville Center, Long Island. ![]()
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