When historian Doris Kerns Goodwin worked in Lyndon Johnson's White House, most of the time she spent with the president was in a small sitting room off of the Oval Office. There he would read memos, talk about himself and his hopes for the future. In what Goodwin calls the "last, sad moments of his presidency," she feels he opened hop more that he would have at the height of his power. "It was an incredible privilege to see the private side of that incredibly colorful figure."
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a presidential historian and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. She has written about various presidents including LBJ, Lincoln, and FDR.