New York • 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 ...

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 of hope" and LBJ's ...

Reporting from New York — 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 ...

Richard N. Goodwin, the author, playwright, political adviser and presidential speechwriter whose role in the Congressional quiz show investigation of the late 1950s inspired the Oscar-nominated ...

Richard N. Goodwin, a top adviser and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson who was credited with coining the term “the Great Society” to describe Johnson’s ...

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Richard N. Goodwin was a master of words. He died on May 20 but the words he wrote for presidents and politicians will live on for years. Goodwin, as a speechwriter for President Lyndon B.

The speechwriter’s job ... Lead image sources (left to right from top): Richard N. Goodwin Papers / Courtesy of Briscoe Center for American History; Cecil Stoughton / Courtesy of LBJ Library ...

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 ...

Former White House special adviser and speechwriter Richard N. Goodwin died Sunday at his home in Concord, Mass. He was 86. The cause was complications from cancer, said his wife, Pulitzer Prize ...