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Richard Naradof Goodwin (December 7, 1931 – May 20, 2018) was an American writer and presidential advisor. He was an aide and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson , and to Senator Eugene McCarthy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy .
May 21, 2018 · NEW YORK (AP) — Richard N. Goodwin, an aide, speechwriter and liberal force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson who helped craft such historic addresses as Robert Kennedy's "ripples of hope" and LBJ's speeches on civil rights and "The Great Society," died Sunday evening at age 86.
May 21, 2018 · In 1968, after Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election, Mr. Goodwin became an adviser and speechwriter in the Democratic presidential campaigns of Senators Robert F. Kennedy of New...
Richard "Dick" N. Goodwin was an author, playwright, and former political advisor and White House speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Dec 30, 2018 · The now-famous phrase that Richard Goodwin coined—the “Great Society”—would ultimately come to embody the spirit of can-do optimism that many Americans exhibited in the mid-1960s.
May 22, 2018 · Richard Goodwin, son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, who wrote speeches for JFK, RFK, LBJ and Al Gore, has died at 86.
May 21, 2018 · Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, a driving force in American politics during times of upheaval in the 1960s and the husband of presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, has died at age 86.
May 21, 2018 · Richard N. Goodwin, a top adviser and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson who was credited with coining the term “the Great Society” to describe Johnson’s...
