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Daly, in his memorandum, advised Bok that to improve his communications with those inside the University, he would have to improve his communications with those outside, a process that Daly said, "depends not only on our making better use of existing media opportunities and developing new ones but also upon your [Bok's] being more open and cooperative...
...initially refused to comment, but became more vocal after a re-reading of the memoranda, particularly Schmidt's. In a statement reportedly issued at Daly's urging. Bok said he "disagreed with the tone" of what he described as "Mr. Schmidt's hastily written intra-office memorandum," and that he "took exception to many of the ideas it contained...
Contrary to your insinuations, Daniel P. Moynihan's "benign neglect" memorandum [May 5] did not recommend indifference to black needs. Why indeed would the author of the Family Assistance Plan, whose main beneficiaries would have been the black poor, have recommended such a policy? Writing in January 1970, Moynihan described the "extraordinary progress" blacks had made in the decade just ended and the various threats to that progress, including the pre-emption of the racial issue by "paranoids ... on all sides." He urged the President to pay "close attention to such progress" while seeking-and here is where benign...
...that have entered the public domain as a result of amendments to the Freedom of Information Act (TIME, April 14). The Washington, D.C., firm's collection of 8,000 documents goes for $1,575. It includes such minutiae as then Ambassador to France Charles Bohlen's 1964 memorandum to Lyndon Johnson on Charles de Gaulle's tactics of "mystification and concealment" and a memo from a planning session of June 26, 1950-the day after the start of the Korean War-when Harry Truman sat down with his top foreign policy advisers. "General Vandenberg reported that...
...abolished the jury system...When the law was changed, he silenced the attempt to debate it in Singapore. On his instructions the newspapers were forbidden to publish, when it mattered, the critical resolution of the special meeting of the Bar, and its memorandum...