Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote

When they returned home, he took his young son aside. Theodore, you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should, he admonished. You must make your body. It is hard drudgery to make one’s body, but I know you will do it. Teedie responded immediately, according to Corinne, giving his father a solemn promise: I’ll make my body.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

When they returned home, he took his young son aside. Theodore, you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should, he admonished. You must make your body. It is hard drudgery to make one’s body, but I know you will do it. Teedie responded immediately, according to Corinne, giving his father a solemn promise: I’ll make my body.

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About Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of numerous U.S. presidents. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington. She was also executive producer of "Abraham Lincoln", a 2022 docudrama on the History Channel. This latter series was based on Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times.