{"id":145835,"date":"2025-03-20T14:33:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/review-of-history-and-fate-the-goodwins-and-the-1960s-at-the-briscoe-center\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:33:38","slug":"review-of-history-and-fate-the-goodwins-and-the-1960s-at-the-briscoe-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=145835","title":{"rendered":"Review of History and Fate: The Goodwins and the 1960s at the Briscoe Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Review-of-History-and-Fate-The-Goodwins-and-the-1960s-at-the-Briscoe-Center-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Review-of-History-and-Fate-The-Goodwins-and-the-1960s-at-the-Briscoe-Center-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Review-of-History-and-Fate-The-Goodwins-and-the-1960s-at-the-Briscoe-Center-1-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Review-of-History-and-Fate-The-Goodwins-and-the-1960s-at-the-Briscoe-Center-1-768x409.png 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Review-of-History-and-Fate-The-Goodwins-and-the-1960s-at-the-Briscoe-Center-1-640x341.png 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Review-of-History-and-Fate-The-Goodwins-and-the-1960s-at-the-Briscoe-Center-1-626x333.png 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Briscoe Center\u2019s latest exhibit, <a href=\"https:\/\/briscoecenter.org\/exhibitions\/history-and-fate-the-goodwins-and-the-1960s\/\"><em>History and Fate<\/em><\/a>, is drawn from the personal papers of Richard (Dick) and Doris Kearns Goodwin. The pair met after their time in the Lyndon Johnson administration, in which Dick, a holdover from the Kennedy administration, had been one of Johnson\u2019s principle speechwriters until 1965, and in which Doris was a White House Fellow in 1967 and a domestic policy staffer thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the exhibit\u2019s name, it is really just about Dick\u2019s life, with the bulk of the displays focused on his time in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.<\/p>\n<p>Archivists at the Briscoe <a href=\"https:\/\/briscoecenter.org\/about\/news\/ut-austins-briscoe-center-for-american-history-acquires-the-richard-n-goodwin-and-doris-kearns-goodwin-archives\/\">acquired<\/a> the Richard N. Goodwin and Doris Kearns Goodwin Archives in 2022, further cementing the sense that there is no better place to study the LBJ administration than at the University of Texas at Austin. They are distinct from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/asset-viewer\/archives\/rngpp\">Dick\u2019s government papers in the Kennedy<\/a> and LBJ libraries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1711\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5175-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5175-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5175-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5175-1-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5175-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5175-1-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5175-1-2048x1369.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5175-1-640x428.jpg 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5175-1-498x333.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><em>Image courtesy of the Briscoe Center<\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>History and Fate<\/em> is packed with Dick\u2019s correspondence, memoranda of conversation, diary entries, and drafts of speeches. His typewritten diary entries are detailed, giving tremendous insight into how his days unfolded, sometimes down to the half hour. They will surely attract significant scholarly attention, as they offer insights into the inner workings of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations that have previously not been available.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief section on Dick\u2019s college years and early career, things get moving as he joined John F. Kennedy\u2019s congressional staff as a speechwriter in 1959; The exhibit includes the letter offering his services to Kennedy, along with the cover letter of his first Kennedy speech draft. Dick ultimately played an important role in Kennedy\u2019s 1960 presidential campaign, including drafting JFK\u2019s first major civil rights address at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/asset-viewer\/archives\/jfksen-0911-020#?image_identifier=JFKSEN-0911-020-p0001\">Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California<\/a>. Once Kennedy was in the White House, Dick worked in Latin American affairs, playing a pivotal role in the creation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alliance_for_Progress#:~:text=The%20Alliance%20for%20Progress%20was,perceived%20communist%20threat%20from%20Cuba.\">Alliance for Progress<\/a>, a program aimed at developing economic cooperation between the Americas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5171-1-984x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5171-1-984x1024.jpg 984w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5171-1-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5171-1-768x799.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5171-1-1476x1536.jpg 1476w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5171-1-1968x2048.jpg 1968w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5171-1-640x666.jpg 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5171-1-320x333.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Image courtesy of the Briscoe Center<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Perhaps the most entertaining parts of the exhibit are some of the materials related to Dick\u2019s time working on the Alliance for Progress\u2014particularly his infamous August 1961 meeting with Argentine Communist revolutionary and Cuban Minister of Finance Che Guevara in Punta del Este, Uruguay, where an Alliance for Progress conference was being held. You can see the <a href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/historicaldocuments\/frus1961-63v10\/d257\">memorandum of Dick\u2019s conversation with Che<\/a>, written at President Kennedy\u2019s request, in the exhibit including marginalia, corrections, and such. (For a Brazilian account, see <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org\/document\/telegram-brazilian-secretary-state-external-relations-afonso-arinos-cabinet-brasilia-19\">this diplomatic cable<\/a>. Read Goodwin\u2019s reflections on the meeting over 40 years later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/events-and-awards\/kennedy-library-forums\/past-forums\/transcripts\/a-conversation-with-richard-n-goodwin\">in this interview<\/a>.) In the spirit of revolution, Che gifted Dick a beautifully-crafted cigar box, which is now on display in the exhibit. News of the meeting with Che leaked to the press, causing an uproar and prompting an inquiry by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee\u2019s Latin America subcommittee. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., a historian and special advisor to the president for Latin American affairs, jokingly sent a Western Union telegram to Dick ahead of the hearing: \u201cBest of luck, old comrade. Give my warm personal regards to Commandante [sic.] Capehart. Che.\u201d The quip about Capehart was a reference to Republican Senator Homer E. Capehart. Dick was transferred to the State Department because of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit\u2019s shift from the John F. Kennedy administration to the Lyndon Baines Johnson administration is, appropriately, quite abrupt. The first item in the LBJ portion of the exhibit is Dick\u2019s diary entry from a few days after JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in which he recounts his experience of the day of the assassination (reproduced as typed): \u201cIt hit me like a shot. I fell to the floor and rocked back and forth saying oh no, oh no, oh no. my body shook with sobs. It cant be true, they cant do this to him. I was paralyzed with emotion.\u201d It reveals the responses of other members of the administration. For example, Schlesinger remarked, per Dick, \u201cwhat kind of a country is this. Those who preached hate and violence, the far right. This was their doing. Our fault was that we had never taken them seriously. I couldnt listen. I nodded agreement and moved off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the business of government kept moving, despite the death of the Chief Executive, and as early as November 27\u2014just five days after Kennedy\u2019s death\u2014Dick had a memo to LBJ about the Alliance for Progress. On December 6, he started the ball rolling on the creation of the JFK Library.<\/p>\n<p>One item of particular interest is a letter Dick wrote to Jackie Kennedy\u2014with whom he was close\u2014about his decision to remain in the administration after her husband\u2019s death, explaining that he thought \u201cPresident Kennedy would have advised me to do it,\u201d and that \u201cit gives me an opportunity to do something, in a small way, to advance the things he believed in.\u201d He also intended to leave government shortly after the 1964 election\u2014evidence, in his view, that he was not accepting Johnson\u2019s invitation to stay on as a means of advancing his personal interests.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5176-1-1024x656.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5176-1-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5176-1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5176-1-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5176-1-1536x984.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5176-1-2048x1312.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5176-1-640x410.jpg 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5176-1-520x333.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><em>Image courtesy of the Briscoe Center<\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dick became Special Assistant to the President on December 10, 1963. In that role, he became one of LBJ\u2019s primary speechwriters, as evidenced by a memo from Bill Moyers\u2014another lead speechwriter\u2014to Dick with a handwritten draft of what came to be known as the \u201cWar on Poverty\u201d speech. Dick was forbidden to show the draft to anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>This portion of the exhibit incorporates drafts of some of LBJ\u2019s most important speeches, including State of the Union addresses, the \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d speech (complete with a QR code to listen to the audio!), LBJ\u2019s speech at Howard University in 1965, and, perhaps most famously, the president\u2019s \u201cGreat Society\u201d speech.<\/p>\n<p>Almost as abrupt as the transition from JFK to LBJ, the exhibit rather suddenly introduces Dick\u2019s resignation from the Johnson administration in 1965 with his notes and a letter on his reasons for departing. He felt unappreciated and that he did not have a seat at the table. Additionally, according to a blurb from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unfinished-Love-Story-Personal-History\/dp\/1982108665\">Doris\u2019 memoir<\/a> printed on the wall of the exhibit, Dick had also become increasingly critical of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his departure, Dick was brought back to draft LBJ\u2019s 1966 State of the Union address, though he ultimately did not retain control over the editing process. So severe was his disillusionment that he never read the final speech and refused to let Doris read it to him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-15-1024x684.png\" alt=\"Dick Goodwin, Bill Moyers, President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965. \" class=\"wp-image-39700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-15-1024x684.png 1024w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-15-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-15-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-15-1536x1026.png 1536w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-15-640x427.png 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-15-499x333.png 499w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-15.png 1599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>L-R: Dick Goodwin, Bill Moyers, President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965. <br \/>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:LBJ_staff_members_1965.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The portion of the exhibit covering Dick\u2019s work immediately after his time in the White House examines his relationship with Robert F. Kennedy, his brief stint as a part of Eugene McCarthy\u2019s presidential campaign in 1968, and\u2014in what is probably the most striking item in the entire display\u2014his dramatic, unpublished diary account of a police raid on the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago during the turbulent Democratic National Convention in August of 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Coverage of Dick\u2019s post-political career is relatively abbreviated, mostly focusing on his publishing of a memoir and a play, and some personal correspondence. The last panel in the exhibit includes his draft of Al Gore\u2019s concession speech after the 2000 election and a picture of Dick\u2019s meeting with Fidel Castro in 2002, for the fortieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Dick died of cancer in 2018 at 86 years old.<\/p>\n<p><em>History and Fate<\/em> offers a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and gives historians a taste of the rich materials of the Goodwin Papers. While the University of Texas at Austin was already <em>the<\/em> place to study the Johnson Administration\u2014after all, it is home to the LBJ Library and the Briscoe Center also hosts the <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.briscoecenter.org\/repositories\/2\/resources\/4030\">personal papers<\/a> of LBJ\u2019s attorney general, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/clark-william-ramsey\">Ramsey Clark<\/a>\u2014the acquisition of the Goodwin Papers at the Briscoe Center further cements its status in this regard.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum_-_6-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"The LBJ Presidential Library and LBJ School of Public Affairs buildings at night.&#10;photo by Jay Godwin 08\/21\/2023. \" class=\"wp-image-39704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum_-_6-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum_-_6-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum_-_6-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum_-_6-1536x991.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum_-_6-640x413.jpg 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum_-_6-516x333.jpg 516w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum_-_6.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The LBJ Presidential Library and LBJ School of Public Affairs buildings at night.<br \/>photo by Jay Godwin 08\/21\/2023. <br \/>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum_-_6.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the exciting research opportunities teased by the exhibit, it is not without its frustrations. First, as I wandered around the display, muttering notes into my phone\u2019s voice memo app, I found myself repeatedly remarking that there was a frustrating lack of direction or linearity in the exhibit. While the <em>general<\/em> order of pre-Kennedy to Kennedy to Johnson to post-Johnson to post-government career was fairly obvious, the more specific timeline of the displays within the exhibit was not. For a chronologically-minded person, the lack of a clearer order was, at times, frustrating. Second, there was surprisingly little mention of Doris in the exhibit, which was confusing given her time in the Johnson administration and her work as Johnson\u2019s preeminent biographer.<\/p>\n<p>That said, <em>History and Fate<\/em> is a thoughtfully designed and intriguing exhibit that will fascinate both historians and the general public alike. The exhibit is open until July 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Benjamin V. Allison<\/strong>\u00a0is a Ph.D student in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a Graduate Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security. His dissertation examines relations between the United States, the Soviet\u00a0Union, and Arab \u201crejectionists\u201d from 1977 to 1984. He also studies terrorism and has been published in\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/binaries\/content\/assets\/customsites\/perspectives-on-terrorism\/2021\/issue-2\/allison.pdf\">Perspectives on Terrorism<\/a><em>\u00a0and by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/icct.nl\/publication\/why-terrorists-do-not-attack-us-bridges-tunnels\/\">International Centre for Counter-Terrorism<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views and opinions expressed in this article or video are those of the individual author(s) or presenter(s) and do not necessarily reflect the policy or views of the editors at Not Even Past, the UT Department of History, the University of Texas at Austin, or the UT System Board of Regents. Not Even Past is an online public history magazine rather than a peer-reviewed academic journal. While we make efforts to ensure that factual information in articles was obtained from reliable sources, Not Even Past is not responsible for any errors or omissions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Briscoe Center\u2019s latest exhibit, History and Fate, is drawn from the personal papers of Richard (Dick) and Doris Kearns Goodwin. 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