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Doris Kearns Goodwin: Bush missed chance to rally nation after 9/11

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told an audience at Queens University Thursday night that history could show that President George W. Bush missed a rare opportunity to rally the nation following the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001.

Goodwin, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, compared the Bush administration's response to that of President Franklin D. Roosevelt following Pearl Harbor....
Read entire article at Charlotte Observer