OVERVIEW:
FULL NAME:
Richard Naradof Goodwin
BORN:
December 7, 1931,
Boston, Massachusetts
DIED:
May 20, 2018 (age 86),
Concord, Massachusetts
EDUCATION:
Tufts University (BA, 1953)
Harvard Law School (JD, 1958)
POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
1958:
Admitted to Massachusetts Bar
1958:
Clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
1959
Special Counsel, House Legislative Oversight Subcommittee
1959:
Joined Senator John F. Kennedy’s Speech Writing Staff
1961:
Special Assistant Counsel to the President,
Member of the President’s Task Force on Latin American Affairs
1961-1963:
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
1963-1964:
Secretary General of the International Peace Corps
1964-1965
Special Assistant to President Lyndon Johnson
1965-1967:
Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University
1968:
Wrote Speeches for Presidential candidates Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and Edmund Muskie
1968:
Visiting Professor of Public Affairs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PORTRAIT:
RESOURCES:
Oval Office (LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto)
BIOGRAPHIES:
Wikipedia
PAPERS:
JFK Library
OBITUARIES (5/21/2018):
Washington Post
New York Times