2 KEY AIDES QUIT JOHNSON'S STAFF

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• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 16, 1965
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NEW YORK TIMES
SEP 1 6 1965
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2 KEY AIDES QUIT
JOHNSON'S STAFF.
Goodwin and Busby Served
as White House Idea Men
C PBY POMFR ,T
5
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15-
The White House announced to-
clay the resignation of two of,
President Johnson's key aides,1
Horace Busby Jr. and Richard
N. Goodwin.
Both have been idea men and
speech writers for Mr. Johnson
in their $28,500-a-year jobs asl
special assistants to the Prosi-~
dent.
Mr. Busby, a Texan who has
long been an intimate of the
President's, has been serving as
Cabinet secretary, with respon-
sibility for liaison between the
Executive departments and the
White House. Recently he .was
also assigned as deputy to Mc-
George Bundy, Special Presi-
dential Assistant for National
Security Affairs.
Mr. Goodwin, an articulate
man and a facile writer, has
been a star in Mr. Johnson's
firmament for a much shorter
time than Mr. Busby. The Pres=
ident has come to rely heavily
on him to translate the goals
of the Great Society into plat-
form English.
Mr. Goodwin has also been
responsible for White House
liaison in urban affairs, civil
rights and the arts and Au-
inanities.
Fellowship at 'Wesleyan
Ile will leave Sept. 20 to ac-
opt a fellowship at the Center
or advanced studies at Wes-
cyan University at Middletown,
onn. His White House duties
will be taken over by Harry C.
cPherson Jr., a special assist-
ant to the President w'ho for-
nerly was Assistant Secretary
)f State for Educational and
ultural Affairs.
No arrangements have yet
een made to replace Mr. Busby.
lthough his plans are not defi-
lite, he is expected to return to
work as a management consul-
ant.
It is known that President
ohnson tried to persuade both
non to stay on his staff. Both
ecided, however, that the time
iad come for them to return
o private life.
Mr. Busby, who is 41 years
Id, first joined Mr. Johnson's
taff in 1948, when the Presi-
lent was a Congressman. He
ias either been on Mr.'
r. John-
?on's staff or close to him in
FOIAb3b
an advisory capacity ever since.
Mr. Busby was appointed a
special assistant to the Presi-
dent in April of 1965. He had
been running ,his own manage-
ment consulting firm in Austin
and Washington. The firm spe-
cialized in economic research
and published a ,newsletter for
businessmen.
Mr, Busby at first agreed to
stay on the President's staff
only through the. election last
November.. Mr. Johnson pur-
suaded him to stay longer, but
Mr. Busby is understood to
have decided finally to resign
because he wants to increase
his income and feels more com-
fortable running his own busi-
ness than working for someone
else.
There has been some gossip
at the White House that Mr.
Busby was disappointed when
the President appointed Bill D.
Moyers instead of Mr. Busby
to take George E. Reedy's place
as press secretary.
But Mr. Busby says he was
relieved when he did not get
the assignment because he
feared that it would interfere
with his plans to return to
private business.
Mr. Goodwin, who is 33 years
old, clerked for the late Justice
Felix Frankfurter after gradu-
ating from Harvard Law School,
then became special counsel for
the House Subcommittee on
Legislative Oversight.
He went .to work for Senator
John F. Kennedy in 1959 and
wrote speeches for him during l you have been unsparing. Ito-
his campaign for the Presidency.
Mr. Goodwin served for a white
as assistant special council to
President Kennedy, then took.
on assignments with the State
Department and the Peace
Corp. In March of 1964, he re-
turned to the White House to
work for President Johnson.
Mr. Goodwin has told friends
that he had decided to return
to a private career either in the
law or business and that the,
Weslyan fellowship offered and
pportunity to make the transi-
tion.
He will he paid $15,000 for
the academic year ending in
June, will occupy a house rent-
free, and will be supplied with
an office and secretarial assist-
ance. He intends to do research
and write. Neither Mr. Busby
nor Mr. Goodwin, however, in-
tend to write memoirs.
Mr. McPherson, who is 36
years old, was born in Tyler,
Tex. After he graduated from
the University of Texas Law
School in 1956, he joined the
staff of the Senate Democratic
Policy Committee, which was
headed by Mr. Johnson. He was
named Deputy Under Secretary
of the Army in 1963 and an
Assistant Secretary of State in
August of the next year.
The White House released a
warm exchange of letters be-
tween the President and Mr.
Busby and Mr. Goodwin.
To Mr. Busby, the President
said:
"As a counselor you have
been wise.. As an administrator
ward yourself. As a friend you'
have been, and you are, a never-
failing source ? of strength to
me."
Mr. Johnson wrgte Mr. Good-
win that his service had been
"a blessing to the country,-for
within the high councils of Gov-
ernment you have articulated:
with great force and persuasion
man's hunger for justice and his
hopes for a richer life."
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