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...President looked glum all week, and Lyndonologists attributed his mood to the loss of two top men: Speechwriter Richard Goodwin and Cabinet Secretary Horace Busby...
...Goodwin, 33, a Kennedy Administration holdover, is a versatile intellectual and idea man who made the transition from Kennedy-style rhetoric to the homelier L.B.J. brand with no apparent strain. It was Goodwin who devised the essential idea for Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, and it was he who first dropped the phrase Great Society into an L.B.J. speech-and into the American vernacular. He accepted a $15,000 fellowship at Wesleyan University's Center for Advanced Studies, where he plans to write under his own name after years of ghosting for two Presidents...
Texas-born "Buzz" Busby, 41, ranked lower than Goodwin in the White House hierarchy, but was personally closer to the boss, whom he had served since 1948. In addition to his job as Cabinet Secretary, he wrote some press releases and shorter presidential statements, served as deputy to McGeorge Bundy and acted as a liaison man with the intellectual world. With Walter Jenkins and George Reedy gone, Busby was the last of Johnson's old personal guard. Buzz plans to return to his management-consulting business to take care of his three growing children...
This was the President's way of winning a congressional expression of confidence. He had instructed Speechwriter Richard Goodwin: "I want it to be very clear that this is a vote for my policy in Viet Nam." When the message went to Capitol Hill, it read: "This is not a routine appropriation. For each member of Congress who supports this request is also voting to persist in our effort to halt Communist aggression in South Viet...
...Leverett House Festival of the Arts will present four students reading their stories and poems in the Leverett House old library tonight at 7:30 in its last program of the year. The participants will be Stephan H. Goodwin '65, Gerald P. Hillman '65, Alan R. Lomberg '66, and James L. Toback '67. Coffee will be served and discussion encouraged...