# Lessons from past presidents

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2008
- Speaker: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Year: 2008
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/doris_kearns_goodwin_lessons_from_past_presidents)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of baseball.

## Lectures

1. [Lessons from past presidents](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/doris_kearns_goodwin_lessons_from_past_presidents/db51d2072afa), 19 min (TED's player)