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...last two years the focus of much of the campus gossip has been Doris H. Kearns, associate professor of Government and former White House Fellow. Harvard professors and students have joined national magazines and newspapers in speculation--What was her relationship with LBJ? Is she marrying Richard Goodwin? What is going on with her Basic Books contract...
Kearns wanted to write the book with Goodwin because she thought it would be a "better" book, but Basic Books did not want her to change it to joint authorship at such a late date. If she had had any immoral, machiavellian goals in mind, she could have waited the short time until she was approved for tenure to accomplish her allegedly sinister deeds. By breaking the contract when she did, Kearns is guilty, perhaps, of misjudgment, nothing more...
Then there are those who have insinuated that Kearns's relationship with Goodwin means she is "dominated" by him. The notion of Kearns, a White House fellow who has written a book, ghostwritten a presidential autobiography, and taught a Harvard course for several years, as "unliberated" is laughable. Moreover, it's nobody's business...
According to one guest, it was a marriage ceremony featuring Washington power and Boston brains. Richard Goodwin, 44, a former speechwriter for the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, and Doris Kearns, 32, a Harvard government professor who once served as Lyndon Johnson's White House confidante, stopped talking politics long enough to exchange wedding vows last week in Massachusetts. The pair had been collaborating on a history of the Johnson years until a tangled legal dispute between Basic Books, Simon & Schuster and the authors caused Goodwin to drop out of the project last June. They were wished better luck...
FAIRY: Mr. Goodwin, the busybody druggist who is letting his musty store run photogenically down while he campaigns against cavities. Maybe a discount chain will drive him off the block in the new year...