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...Searing Lecture. Just after the Look deal was closed, Jackie Kennedy returned from a Hawaii vacation. "She reacted strenuously to the magazine idea," said Evan Thomas. "The promotion, the fireworks-it was bothering her emotionally." She was even more deeply disturbed after former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, a neighbor of Manchester's near the Wesleyan University campus in Middletown, Conn., saw the author's agreement with Look. Goodwin, realizing that Manchester had assured the magazine of no interference from the Kennedys, took alarm. He and Manchester flew up to Hyannis Port with Look's publisher, Gardner Cowles...
...Kennedys now claim that changes that they had recommended had not been made, and that portions deleted from one section had been slipped into another. A full 15 pages of Jackie's personal reactions remained in the proofs. "I read them with horror," said one family friend. Goodwin called on Manchester, told him of all the objections that remained. "I'll go think about them-and talk with my lawyer," said Manchester. He seemed in no mood to yield. A monthly Manhattan tabloid, Books, quoted him as taking, around that time, the position...
Mail Now. In a final effort to reach agreement, Goodwin sent Look and Harper a memorandum indicating ten personal passages about Jackie that the Kennedys were anxious to delete; at that point, they were not even attempting to change the book's tone toward Johnson, despite their alarm at it. Two Harper executives flew to London, where Manchester was working on his interrupted Krupp book, to discuss the changes. Later they said that some changes had been made, but refused to show the galleys to the Kennedys. Look also refused to show them its galleys. Jackie finally decided...
...original White House crew remaining on the scene. Gone from the Administration are Johnson's own recruits (Walter Jenkins, Jack Valenti, Reedy, Horace Busby, Eric Goldman), as well as men who served both Kennedy and Johnson (McGeorge Bundy, Ralph Dungan, Kenny O'Donnell, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard Goodwin, Dave Powers, Pierre Salinger, Jerome Wiesner, Ted Sorensen). Jake Jacobsen, another of Johnson's inner-circle aides, will also depart early next year. Moyers' replacement will be George Christian, 39, a former Texas sportswriter (the Temple Telegram and International News Service) who was Governor John Connally's press...
Married. Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, 22, daughter of Banker David, a Radcliffe graduate and aspiring playwright; and Harvard English Professor Walter J. Kaiser, 35; in Pocantico Hills...