There is no finer voice to launch our 2025 festival than that of DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, the revered and respected Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer. Now she has written something thrilling and different: a moving memoir of her long marriage to Richard “Dick” Goodwin, a presidential speechwriter and close adviser to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, the latter of whom he worked with to develop the Great Society. She will talk about the passion she and Dick shared for each other and for the country, and about the pivotal moments and central figures of the 1960s—the Kennedys, Johnsons, and Martin Luther King Jr.— and tell us what still fills her with hope. Love stories don’t get richer or more meaningful than this.