Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan is considering leaving Harvard this June to accept Cornell University's most distinguished professorship...
...Moynihan, who returned to Harvard last February after two years as President Nixon's special assistant for urban affairs, has been offered the John L. Senior professorship at Cornell. The post carries a salary of $50,000, and an expense account of $50,000 per year for secretarial help and research...
...Moynihan opened by reporting on some recent conversations with businessmen: "Let me take the occasion to repeat my comment about what I feel to be the serious inattention of the Administration to its reputation with respect to civil liberties and to the general question of 'repression.' Since leaving Washington, I have spent a good deal of time talking to businessmen. (Picking up some consulting fees!) I have met with the boards of the top management of the half a dozen largest banks around the country, with the equivalent groups in the dozen or so largest mutual funds, with...
Murder. The White House, Moynihan charged, had not responded when opportunities arose to dispel suspicion: "This was why I was so concerned at the time about the charge that the Black Panthers were being exterminated. I could get no one, save [Special Consultant to the President] Len Garment, to see how dreadfully potent a charge this was against you. The charge was being made that your Administration was carrying out a systematic plan of political murder designed to wipe out a political party. The charge was groundless, which I could soon enough establish to my own satisfaction. But what...
...Governor, provided he has a large enough planning staff and an open mind. In fact, these changes presume a redistribution of political power, just as poverty warriors once argued back in the '60's before the adventures of Community Action Programs and the disasters of the OEO led Dr. Moynihan to write Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding. The great effort to reform local power structures did prove, as Moynihan wrote, that the federal government cannot be expected to agitate against local political authority. But it did not refute the need for community action or the contribution of participation to the competence...