Richard Naradof Goodwin (December 7, 1931 – May 20, 2018) was an American writer and presidential advisor. He was an aide and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to Senator Eugene McCarthy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Richard "Dick" N. Goodwin was an author, playwright, and former political advisor and White House speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He died May 18, 2018 at the age of 86, surrounded by family and friends at his home in Concord, Mass. after a brief bout with cancer.

May 21, 2018 · NEW YORK (AP) — Richard N. Goodwin, an aide, speechwriter and liberal force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson who helped craft such historic addresses as Robert Kennedy's "ripples of hope" and LBJ's speeches on civil rights and "The Great Society," died Sunday evening at age 86.

May 21, 2018 · Richard N. Goodwin, a senior adviser and speechwriter for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson whose later work as an author, journalist and political consultant...

May 21, 2018 · Richard N. Goodwin, an aide, a speechwriter and a liberal force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson who helped craft such historic addresses as Robert Kennedy's "ripples...

Dec 30, 2018 · Goodwin, who died in May at the age of 86 after a brief struggle with cancer, would receive a plum assignment: to write a speech that encapsulated LBJ’s ambitious domestic policy agenda—a...

Richard “Dick†N. Goodwin was an author, playwright, former political advisor and White House speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Richard N. Goodwin, a senior adviser and speechwriter for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson whose later work as an author, journalist and political consultant reflected his unswerving liberal outlook, died on Sunday at his home in Concord, Mass. He was 86.

May 21, 2018 · Richard N. Goodwin, an aide, speechwriter and liberal force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson who helped craft such historic addresses as Robert Kennedy's "ripples of hope"...

May 29, 2018 · Richard N. Goodwin, A53, H95, who wrote landmark speeches for John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, died on May 20. He was eighty-six. Goodwin, the husband of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, H95, died at his home in Concord, Massachusetts, after a brief bout with cancer.