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...RICHARD GOODWIN has the first qualification of a reformer--he's an optimist. Not a Pangloss, huckster, or sentimentalist. But "in politics," he says, "the idea that problems can be solved is a professional assumption...
...Goodwin's career gives no hint of why he is not a politician himself. He graduated summa from Tufts and Harvard Law, clerked for Frankfurter, was assistant to John Kennedy as Senator and President, and speechwriter for Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy...
...foreign policy, Goodwin said that America has none except the "containment of Russia and China, and the survival of Israel." He added that Americans need something to look to larger than themselves and that this could be provided by their finding a role in the world...
...Goodwin was optimistic about the possibilities for political change in America. He said that the people respond to ideological and personal leadership. "The feeling is in the country; the job now is one of organization," he added...
...Goodwin said that the immediate problems of race and war could be met rather easily, adding "The solution is essentially using money with good sense...