Word: goodwins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tuesday and Wednesday, his nomination assured, McGovern labored over his acceptance speech. He had no shortage of suggestions. Old Kennedy Aides Adam Walinsky, Arthur Schlesinger and Richard Goodwin contributed ideas in lofty, cadenced prose. Campaign Speechwriter Robert Shrum submitted drafts; McGovern rejected all but a few ideas and an occasional phrase, preferring to write the speech himself on lined yellow legal pads?a practice of Richard Nixon...
Late in the afternoon, Kennedy flew by private jet to Miami Beach. Arriving on the podium after Eagleton's speech, Kennedy drew the convention's first display of unmitigated warmth, a roaring standing ovation. Then, in a powerful speech written by Richard Goodwin, Kennedy delivered an evangelistic plea for unity. He sounded less boyish than he used to, speaking in driving cadences reminiscent of his brothers and somewhat of F.D.R. His rhetoric seemed rotund in comparison to McGovern's prairie tones. "For there is a new wind rising over the land," he said. "In it can be heard many things...
...cite such warnings as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time ten years ago. But Shawn agrees that both the urgency and frequency of political pieces have increased sharply. In his view, the turning point was the 1970 Cambodian invasion. Richard Goodwin, once a Kennedy speechwriter, wrote a denunciation of Nixon's "usurpation" of power; Shawn used it as an editorial. After that "Notes and Comment," once the fluffy lead-in to each issue, frequently became the magazine's most somber instrument...
...Without the aggressiveness of Bobby Kennedy or the aloofness of Eugene McCarthy, McGovern has forged a coalition of followers from both camps. On one flank are such "Kennedy men" as Advisers John Kenneth Galbraith and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., former Kennedy Press Secretaries Pierre Salinger and Frank Mankiewicz, Writers Richard Goodwin and Adam Walinsky. (His principal financial contributors are Max Palevsky, chairman of the Xerox Executive Committee, and Henry Kimelman, board chairman of West Indies Corp.) On the other are legions of young staffers and student volunteers bristling with go-for-George enthusiasm. The spectacle of the old Kennedy pros followed...
...statistics show that while Dallas had 5,970 known crimes per 100,000 population last year, El Paso had 2,889 per 100,000. Dallas (pop. 844,000) had 242 murders, El Paso (pop. 323,000) only 13. Dr. Frederick Goodwin, an expert on lithium studies for the National Institute of Mental Health, doubts that "lithium has these magical properties in the population." Others are not so sure. If lithium does have anything to do with the relative peace in El Paso, what would it do for other cities like New York and Chicago...