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...funneled through these two guys. Haldeman is not at all interested in policy, and Ehrlichman is. This explains how they manage to get along. Ehrlichman views himself as a broker, a sifter of ideas, rather than an advocate." But he has taken substantive positions: in favor of Presidential Counsellor Daniel Patrick Moynihan's plan for a minimum annual welfare income, in favor of the conservationists who successfully blocked a Miami jetport in the Florida Everglades. He is as critical of the liberal press as Spiro Agnew, and once told a reporter who said that a Nixon decision would...
Amended Amendment. By week's end there was no substantive compromise in sight. A round of constant consultation, involving the amendment's authors−Republican John Sherman Cooper and Democrat Frank Church−Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Laird and Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow, ended with a modification in the amendment's preamble. The original text included the passage: "In order to avoid involvement of the U.S. in a wider war in Indochina and to expedite the withdrawal of American forces from Viet Nam . . ." The revised opening reads: "In concert with the declared objective of the President...
...Counsellor to the President could not resist the fetching phrase "benign neglect" to describe his notion of the proper attitude the Government should now have toward race relations. Predictably enough, the document caused a sensation. Last week two more of his papers trickled out of the federal bureaucracy. Both were dated just before Richard Nixon was inaugurated as President, but they nevertheless drew fire from both conservatives and liberals and kept Moynihan a foremost topic of national controversy (TIME, March...
...beliefs and the programs are suddenly seen to be vulnerable because their backers clung to them too uncritically, too long, without sufficient regard for changing conditions. Close to the heart of this attack, and in a sense symbolizing it, is Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the President's Urban Affairs Counsellor, a man singularly well equipped to speak to both liberals and conservatives-and to infuriate both...
...over San Clemente." White House economists had to reassure the nation that the potential dividend was not all that evanescent. He is also an inept administrator. Partly to make White House operations more orderly, partly to relieve Moynihan of bureaucratic routine, Nixon recently elevated him to a Cabinet-level Counsellor-and took away his staff...