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"They're all going to have flaws, they're all going to make mistakes, they're all going to have strengths. But the balance is something that takes historians a while to figure out," Doris Kearns Goodwin says of the pantheon of great presidents. Her comments come in a week that will see two ex-POTUSes, a soon-to-be-POTUS, a VPOTUS aspiring to the top job, and the current POTUS take the stage at the Democratic National Convention.
And where does Joe Biden fit into history? "Because he saved democracy, people would argue, when he won the first time, and then he left when he knew he had to leave. … And there are domestic accomplishments that I think “I will have a high place in history,” Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize winner and former adviser to Lyndon Johnson, said on today’s Deadline ElectionLine podcast.