his bedroom is the size of a twin - you know, like a small boy's bedroom. i mean, you look at the little white house - which is what they called the house where roosevelt would stay - and there's this tiny living room- dining room that's one combined room. goodwin: yeah, i went to warm springs, and what's so amazing about it, is that it is such a primitive setting.

brian: did you go to all these places? ms. and so he liked to spend every thanksgiving with them. so he created a whole rehab center, and lots of patients would be down there, and i think somehow his contagiousĬonfidence helped them to get through their own polio. he went down there, initially because the hot springs that came out of the ground naturally in that area, were thought to help people with polio. he had originally created the whole warm springs rehabilitation center, in the 1920's. goodwin: he had an annual dinner for the patients at warm springs. goodwin: well, during the last presidential years in the war, he was only down there three or four times, but prior to the war, he went down every thanksgiving because - brian: why? ms. brian: how much time did he spend in warm springs, georgia? ms. but, at that time, nobody thought you could go to your country and tell them that you were a paraplegic that they wouldn't allow you to be their president.

and, for some reason, that speech made an enormous emotional impact on the country, because they then saw that he was conquering this disability. when he came back from the altar, he was so tired that he finally excused himself instead of standing on his braces, and sat down. i keep thinking he is thinking roosevelt is 700 pages on me with only 350 pages.Īnd his strength, but only at the very end of his life did he ever give a speech sitting down. i still keep thinking johnson is still around. > and how many books have you written? > three two?at were the other > well, the first one was lyndon johnson and the american out of the hat came experience that i will forever treasure of having been 23 and years old and working for president johnson in the white house and then helping him with his memoirs. one is a freshman at amherst the youngest one, thank god, is still at home in high school. that's how it happened dedicate the book to three people? > right > who are they? > three sons > probably the most important people in my life. a course on the presidency, and taught some american government courses, and e came to finish a book, and i had an office at this little kennedy institute, and he had an office right next to mine.

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