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Daniel P. Moynihan, one of the Administration's few conspicuous phrasemakers and men of letters, was caught in a literary lapse by a New York Times reader who could not believe that the Presidential Counsellor meant to say "We have become a noisome country" in a recent speech. Moynihan confessed in his letter to the paper that "after hasty consultation with Webster's Second Edition," he had tried-unsuccessfully-to swing a deal with a reporter to have the word rendered as "querulous." Then he concluded with a verbal flourish: "Thus does truth subvert semantics...
ROBERT MAYO, Director of the Budget Bureau, moves to the White House staff as a Counsellor to the President, which could be a way station to a Cabinet post if more changes are yet to come. JAMES HODGSON, now Shultz's Under Secretary and a former vice president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., succeeds Shultz as Secretary of Labor...
Glowing Words. After four days in Indochina, the group headed home -with a rest stop in Honolulu-while Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow wrote a glowing report of the success of the Cambodia invasion. His words were toned down before the team presented the report personally to the President. It called the Cambodia operation a certain short-term military success that helped ensure that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from South Viet Nam on schedule, or possibly even faster. The only dissenter was New Hampshire Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre, a Democrat, who said that the action had "widened...
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Robert Finch, LL.D., Counsellor to the President, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...suggestion of the controversies that had come between the two men or of the dissatisfaction that Nixon had begun to feel. Rather, the President said that he needed his "oldest and closest friend and associate'' near by in the White House. He will have the title of Counsellor to the President, travel with the President at home and abroad, and provide advice on both domestic and certain foreign subjects. "I regret losing him at HEW," the President said. "But I need him here." Succeeding him at HEW will be Elliot Richardson, now Under Secretary of State...