RICHARD N. GOODWIN MAY BE NEXT ARTS ADVISER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180016-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: August 3, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

.` YORK T`Nfl S
AUG 3 1963
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nedy Considers Select;
President #Cennedy is consid-
ering the appointment Qh- Him for Job That August
;chard N. Goodwin May Be Next Arts Advise
ouse a Is special. n- Heckscher Resigned
pant on the a ltlf> ,
win would sued u
Heckscher, a director of lid but also to promote dee
Twentieth Century itnd, . lio awareness by other nations,
ment and the arts.
to bolster the country's cult al
resources and to establish cl er
ov n-
contact between the GOT-
resigned on June 6. ? esp ia11y in Latin America, of
rest
The okfice was created by thi country's cultural achieve-
believed to feel that much re
needs to be done not onI to
stimulate the arts in Ame ica
I has been a recurring crit-
lets that , Washington has
ab many ahderestimated the
im rtailee, that Latin Amer-
fly admit that such efforts by
the White House and of
agencies have fallen far s rt
of their goals. Too gften,, y t. ey
said, a new inltia ,ve? eq ng
participation by 'I ding a i to,
writers or beO e
sidetracked by orl,atio of
another conslfltd c unit ee.
A sweeping cri uei?n of he
Government's pro in for he
arts was made b Mr. H k-
'th
scher in a report submitted
his resignation. It ,was em a-
sized at the time that he as
resigning not in pfotest but e-
cause he had served more t an
twice as long as the six mo he
to which he had agreed.
A Dual Goal Is Visualized
In considering Mr. Good vin
for the job, the President as
sio as ti. key to better inter-
nat nal ui ierstanding. Actual-
ly, while a Soviet Union is
sta 'ng a major cultural drive
to press Latin America with
its allet groups, symphony or-
che tras and concert artists,
Co gress and the State Depart-
me t have curbed funds for this
typ of activity.
r.-Goodlacin-33 years old. Is
ger Jr. and Chester Bowles for
having "consistently urged a
soft policy toward Communism. j
both In Cuba and elsewhere;
throughout the world."
Adviser to Governments
Sargent Shriver, director of.
Mr. Goodwin with stimulating;
more than 20 governments into,
setting up their own peace corps]
to help underdeveloped nations.
Mt Qppdwin Xgl= this,
week irom th "$ominican Re-I
public where the "P"e"te Corps'
e o 'Its largest opera-
tions.
While working on Latin
American affairs, he became
convinced that a lack of cul-
tural exchanges between that)
critical area and the United!
States was an important ele-1
ment In the misunderstandings,
that have frequently beset Inter-
American relations,
As a result, he helped organ-
ize a conference of United States
and Latin-American intellectu-
als with the help of Huntington
Hartford 3d, publisher of Show
magazine. Mr. Hartford subse-
quently sponsored the showing
in the United States of paint-
ings by Latin-American artists
who attended the conference.
If Mr. Goodwin is appointed
to the White House position, hey
would first complete a series of
fos ers the creation of volun-
tee groups in Western Europe,
Af 'ca and Latin America. He
pr iously was special counsel
in he White House and a Dep-
uty Assistant Secretary of State
for Inter-American Affairs.
speech-writer for Mr. Ken-
ne during the 1960 Presideri
tia campaign, Mr. Goodwin
wa attacked by Senator Barry
Go water together with Adlai
u
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trips to Western Europe ands
Latin America in connection
with his Peace Corps activities
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