Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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• Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • War
  • Support
  • Progress