Doris joined CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 to talk about the history of presidential illnesses, how other administrations were judged on their transparency about a president's health, a president’s word as his bond and how pictures—like that of Trump's Rose Garden event that has left top Trump associates infected with COVID-19—will create a lasting impression. "Who knows what when is what history is always about. And the fact we have a conflicting timetable now just raises the larger question of wha

Doris joined Anderson Cooper 360 to put this week's violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in historical perspective by reaching back to the 1850s when a beating on the Senate floor was one of the incidents that led to the Civil War. "This is is our story. We have to tell it so it doesn't end up the way it did in the Civil War. That's what history does: it gives us solace and hope. If we look back at the past and make it different in the present." You can watch the conversation here. | Doris Kearns