with Richard Goodwin and Doris Kearns Goodwin on Mar 27, 2009
with Richard Goodwin and Doris Kearns Goodwin on Sep 16, 1994
Richard N. Goodwin is an American writer who may be best known as an advisor and speechwriter to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Goodwin joined Kennedy’s speech writing staff in 1959, and after Kennedy’s successful presidential bid, served as assistant special counsel to the President in 1961. Goodwin was also a member of Kennedy’s Task Force on Latin American Affairs and in 1961, was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, a position he held until 1963. As one of Kennedy’s specialists in Latin-American affairs, Goodwin helped develop the Alliance for Progress, an economic development program for Latin America. From 1963 to 1964, Goodwin served as secretary-general of the International Peace Corps and in 1964 became special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He has been credited with naming Johnson’s legislative agenda “the Great Society”.
Goodwin left government service in 1965, though returned briefly in 1968 to write speeches for presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy and Edmund Muskie. After leaving government, Goodwin served as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut from 1965 to 1967 and as a visiting professor of public affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. After Senator Kennedy’s death he retired from politics and became a writer.
Along with acting as a contributor to “Rolling Stone” and “The New Yorker”, Goodwin has published numerous books, articles and plays. In 2003, the Yvonne Arnaud Theater in Guilford, England produced his new work “The Hinge of the World”, which took as its subject matter the quarrel between Galileo Galilei and the Vatican.
Source -Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_N._Goodwin
