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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has become the spokeswoman for a loose confederation of scholars who likewise are appalled at the idea of going ahead with the memorial as designed. "Roosevelt's polio made his special relationship with the American people possible," she said last week. "Not to allow that to be shown would be a fundamental distortion of history, a real loss." The Roosevelt heirs, who at first seemed supportive of a historically cleansed memorial, seem to have tipped the other way, with many favoring a change. The National Organization on Disability has agreed to pick up any extra cost...
Schipper, who worked at the Boston law firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar until his death last October, was a specialist in the areas of probate and estate planning...
That there was still enough left over to fuel a four-day auction seems an important consideration to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose husband Richard was an insider in J.F.K.'s Administration and who herself is friendly with a number of the Kennedys. "There's a sense that all of the Kennedy family homes are so filled with mementos and pictures from the past that you do feel when you set foot in them as if you're drawn backward in time. While that is very interesting historically for people who visit, I've often wondered what it's like...
...eight candidates include J. Michael Bishop, a scientist at the University of California at San Francisco who earned his M.D. from Harvard in 1962; Doris Kearns Goodwin, a historian and political commentator who received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968; and Sandra Ohrn Moose, senior vice president of The Boston Consulting Group, who also received a Ph.D. from Harvard...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN...