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...June she broke with her original publisher, Basic Books, and announced plans to revise the book, co-authoring it with her current lover, Richard Goodwin. Goodwin is a freelance presidential adviser with many enemies in government and academic circles. Kearn's announcement prompted a suit from Basic Books alleging breach of contract, a caustic editorial in The Wall Street Journal, and the revelation that the manuscript she submitted to the Gov department had already been edited, for about $8000, by fiction writer Michael Rothschild...
...critics on both the right and left have long-sustained doubts about "throwing money" at problems, as epitomized in parts of Lyndon Johnson's massive Great Society. Even Richard Goodwin, L.B.J.'s intellectual, observed recently that Government departments could no longer cope in the real world because they had never been forced to survive within the free enterprise system...
...THING ABOUT the three heavies in this scandal is that they all have a precious scrap of integrity that they are anxious to protect with every manipulative bone in their bodies. Kearns has a tenured chair on the line. Glikes has a fine editorial reputation at stake, and Goodwin must fear his betrayal as the ogre. When you call them up, they talk a lot, to attempt to preserve that patch of integrity...
Glikes's contention is that Kearns's has been "badly hurt and badly used' by Goodwin, to effect contract that would assure them $130,000 more in advances. He has said that Goodwin's financial situation is "extremely dire," and the last time I spoke with him, he urged me to do more reporting, explaining, "Doris didn't need the $130,000, and that's the sad part about it--somebody else did... That's where this story can be broken wide open...
Kearns and Goodwin insist that they had only the quality of the book in mind and never expected such an outpouring of newsprint and vitriol when she switched publishers. Whenever I call Kearns, I ask, "Don't you think you made a mistake?" and she always croons. "No, I just didn't know all this would happen. I Just didn't know," Kearns, in this very sweet way, had the wool over at least one reporter's eyes for a long time. At first she would only talk about Glikes-as-a-rejected-lover off the record, and when...