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President Gerald Ford, 62. After annual physical examination at Bethesda Naval Hospital, is described as having the well-being of a "conditioned athlete." After skiing, suffers occasional swelling in knees from past football injuries. Last December small wart (benign) removed from left eyelid. Has had hemorrhoidal surgery in the past...
...extent that Ford ever registers shock over anything on his benign face, he did when O'Neill told him there were 700,000 children below the poverty line who could not qualify for school lunches. Yet Lynn's kids at Bethesda's high-income Walt Whitman High School got a 23? subsidy for each meal at school. Ford ordered his proposal to cut aid for those who can pay and target it for the destitute...
...racial oppression, several black leaders took offense at his use of terms like "tangle of pathology" to describe the Negro family. Shortly afterward, Moynihan left his job at Labor. His stint as director of Nixon's Urban Affairs Council ended a year after his memo urging a period of "benign neglect" of the racial issue was leaked to the press in 1970. Moynihan still bristles at what he regards as widespread misinterpretation of that phrase. It did not, he insists, refer to less Government attention to civil rights, but to a need for more care, at a time of high...
After the"benign neglect" flap, Moynihan stayed out of the limelight until Nixon made him Ambassador to India in 1973. Arriving in New Delhi at a time when Indo-American relations were at their lowest ebb?in the wake of the U.S. tilt toward Pakistan in its 1971 war with India?Moynihan wisely decided to keep an uncharacteristically low profile. He stayed close to his official residence, Roosevelt House, which he loathed; he gave private showings of John Ford films to American visitors, and made only one or two speeches. The restraints of the New Delhi post have made...
...deceit, for example, it has formulated no general policy. No consensus exists within the Psychology and Social Relations Department on the morality of deception. Kelman believes, for example, that deception "may create self-doubts, lower self-esteem, or create temporary conflict, frustration or anxiety." Even when it may seem benign, Kelman writes, deception "violates the respect to which all fellow humans are entitled...