I have a big crush on Doris Kearns Goodwin, noted presidential historian and frequent guest on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer. She just looks like a really nice person, and she’s obviously smart, and I bet she’s a firecracker in the sack.
How weird does that make me?
I wouldn’t say I have a crush on her, but I got to know her through Ken Burns’ Baseball. She seems like a nice person, and I actually think she’d be great to attend a ballgame with. Since she’s a former Brooklyn Dodger fan (like my dad), I’d like to hear more of her memories from those days. I enjoyed her autobio/history, Wait Till Next Year, very much.
She seemed a little too much of a total Clinton apologist the past couple years to suit me, but that’s her beeswax, I guess.
As for her ability in the sack, I can honestly say I’ve never thought of her that way.
Many years ago I saw her husband Richard Goodwin, a lawyer, debating on some talk show – maybe it was William Buckley. Anyhow, Goodwin blew his opponent away.
She’s old enough to be my mother. Thanks alot. I looked her up on Google Image Search expecting to see some blond bombshell like my favorite news reporter. That’s not the most flattering picture of Cam I’ve ever seen.
Methinks that Ms. Goodwin has had one facelift too many. In the category of “mature pundits” I sort of like Linda Chavez, but as wishbone points out, there are so many hot news babes around, why think about the grandmas? I like Ann Curry, who is only a couple years older than me.
But to answer your OP I don’t think that you are weird. Intelligence is very sexy.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is married to Richard Goodwin, the Kennedy family’s most sycophantic toadie. He used to write speeches for JFK, and was a hanger-on in the LBJ administration for a while.
A few years back, Goodwin wrote a book about LBJ, in which he tried to prove that Johnsonb was mentally ill. Now, IF Goodwin had an ounce of integrity or decency, you’d think he’d have said something to the public about that at the time! But you’d be wrong. He waited until 20 years after LBJ was out of office (and, coincidentally, Goodwin needed a few bucks) to reveal THAT bombshell.
Mind you, LBJ wasn’t mentally ill when he was pushing cicil rights legislation through Congress, or expanding the welfare state, or putting Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court. No, he was only clinically insane when he disagreed with Goodwin, or sent more troops to Viet Nam.
What truly galled me was that a big part of the “evidence” of Johnson’s alleged insanity was that he constantly fumed and raged that he was surrounded by disloyal advisors who were betraying him, and secretly supporting Bobby Kennedy.
Goodwin’s own book recounts that Goodwin regularly went to Bobby Kennedy and told him everything that Johnson said! In Goodwin’s account, Bobby was SHOCKED at how paranoid LBJ was. It NEVER dawned on Goodwin that his own actions PROVED Johnson right. Johnson WAS surrounded by disloyal Kennedyites- and NOBODY fit that description better than Richard Goodwin himself!