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Apparently, being a former Kennedy speechwriter doesn’t carry quite the same cachet as actually being a Kennedy -at least when it comes to drunken-driving arrests. Because Richard Goodwin, longtime family retainer who advised JFK, RFK and Ted Kennedy, was arrested in his hometown of Concord and charged with drunken driving after he plowed his car into a police cruiser. Ooooops! Goodwin, 74, the hubby of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and a legendary political player, was not given a ride home, a la Patrick Kennedy. Oh nooooo. He was arrested and taken to the Concord PD where he was charged with...

FORT BLISS, Tex. — When Joseph K. Goodwin graduated from Harvard in the spring of 2001, his ideas about where he was going did not include war. But early in February, Lieutenant Goodwin ascended the stage at the Army's Air Defense Artillery School graduation ceremony here, recognized as one of two distinguished honor graduates in his 120-member class, picked by his commanders as among the best to lead his fellow soldiers in battle. Standing next to a fleet of armored vehicles used to fire short-range Stinger missiles, which he could soon be called to operate in a conflict with Iraq,...