Taft was Roosevelt’s handpicked successor. I didn’t know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early ’30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Mini who’s who:

Doris Kearns Goodwin : American Historian
Born:  January 4, 1943