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First Lieut. Remer Harding and Staff Sergeant William Goodwin...
...Edner's death followed Harry Truman's 1947 decision to help stem Red aggression in Greece. Smith and Williams died in the airlift that foiled the 1948-49 Berlin blockade. Harding and Goodwin were the first Americans killed in Korea after North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel in 1950. Medendorp and Lynn died in 1954 when Red China loosed a thunderous artillery barrage against Nationalist-held Quemoy island. Anderson's U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. Davis died when his truck hit a mine 18 miles from Saigon...
...during the Kennedy years, served as master of ceremonies. Benjamin Smith, who was J.F.K.'s Harvard roommate and later warmed the U.S. Senate seat to which Teddy Kennedy was elected, was on display. Others on the dais included Andy Hatcher, a former White House press aide, and Dick Goodwin, a Kennedy speechwriter who was drafted by Lyndon Johnson to help with this month's State of the Union address. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield gave the principal speech...
...speech was initially compiled from memoranda ordered weeks ago from Government agencies and advisers. White House aides digested the memos, and the speech's first draft was written by Richard Goodwin, a former Kennedy and Johnson speechwriter who was called back from his post at Wesleyan University. When Goodwin was through, the President reconstructed the speech with the help of No. 1 White House Aide Jack Valenti and Press Secretary Bill Moyers, finally wound up penciling in many of the words and phrases himself. He was still making changes with his felt-tipped pen as his chauffeured limousine sped...
...liberal" strategy was first employed by Governor Warren and his successor, Goodwin J. Knight. Warren unveiled a program that included such previously unheard of measures as rent control and a fair employment practices act. What he was quite consciously doing was taking enough New Deal-like positions to attract a hefty segment of California's largely non-committed voters...