Doris Kearns Goodwin on the Charlie Rose: The Week (2 August, 2015)

On Charlie Rose: The Week, Charlie and Doris talk about the upcoming 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act in connection with the reissuing of Doris’s “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream” as an ebook on August 4. “How I wish he was alive now because I think what America is finally realizing… is that he created the foundation of our social and economic life today,” Doris tells Charlie. Watch the segment here.