| Jim Keogh | |
| Office: | Director of the United States Information Agency |
| President: | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Term Start: | February 8, 1973 |
| Term End: | November 30, 1976 |
| Predecessor: | Frank Shakespeare |
| Successor: | John Reinhardt |
| Office1: | White House Director of Speechwriting |
| President1: | Richard Nixon |
| Term Start1: | January 20, 1969 |
| Term End1: | December 31, 1970 |
| Predecessor1: | Harry McPherson |
| Successor1: | Ray Price |
| Birth Date: | 28 October 1916 |
| Birth Place: | Platte County, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Party: | Republican |
| Education: | Creighton University (BA) |
James Keogh (October 28, 1916 - May 10, 2006) was an American magazine editor and political advisor who worked as the executive editor of Time magazine and the head of the White House speechwriting staff under Richard Nixon.[1]
Keogh was born in Platte County, Nebraska and graduated from Creighton University in Omaha in 1938.
He worked for the Omaha World-Herald in Omaha before working at Time magazine. He worked as an affairs reporter at Time in 1951, and was the assistant managing editor from 1961 to 1968.[2]
Keogh worked as a special assistant to President Nixon in 1969, and became his head speechwriter in 1970. He was the director of the United States Information Agency from 1973 to 1977.[3] Keogh also wrote two books, This Is Nixon in 1956, and President Nixon and the Press in 1972.
Keogh died on May 10, 2006, in Greenwich, Connecticut at the age of 89. The cause of death was respiratory failure.[4]