Word: moynihan
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...changes in the first-team lineup, but his lieutenants are gesturing frantically from the bench. At a breakfast meeting with some 15 newsmen last week, one important Nixon aide let it be known that as many as three Cabinet officers will soon be pulled out for good. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who has served as a liberal goad to Nixon-notably on the welfare reform bill, one of the Administration's few major domestic proposals-will be dispatched to New York to replace Charles Yost as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...
...Moynihan shift was unexpected, for the urbane urbanologist had indicated several times that he meant to return to Harvard when his academic leave of absence expires at the end of this year. The choice was Nixon's own idea; the President is much taken with Moynihan's Irish wit and persuasiveness, and he thinks that the U.N. post will be upgraded by sending to it a trusted adviser who is a veteran of his personal inner councils. Early in the Nixon Administration, Moynihan established a reputation as an articulate counterbalance to the conservatism of many of the President...
Yost, a competent career diplomat who is widely respected at the U.N., was not informed that he was to be bounced to make way for Moynihan -or anyone else. Nor was there any direct word from the President or from his staff to the three Cabinet officers on Nixon's drop list: Interior's Walter Hickel, Treasury's David Kennedy and Agriculture's Clifford Hardin. The likely explanation is that Nixon wants to pressure the three men into resigning on their own. Says one staffer in the Office of Management and Budget...
Besides the Moynihan shift, there were two other significant items on the Administration's personnel front. Donald Rumsfeld, chief of the Office of Economic Opportunity, fired Terry Lenzner, 31, head of OEO's program providing legal services to the poor (TIME, Oct. 26). The OEO recently tried to turn over to field offices some of Lenzner's administrative responsibilities. Lenzner accused Rumsfeld of "caving in" to politicians "who are determined to keep us from suing special interests close to them on behalf of the poor." Rumsfeld said Lenzner was "either unwilling or unable" to carry...
...after steadfastly supporting the measure for months, voted against it. A Health, Education and Welfare Department official saw pure politics in Harris' switch, calling him that "goddamned bastard" who "just couldn't stand the idea of Richard Nixon getting credit for this bill." Liberal Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the White House Counsellor who sold the President on the legislation, was even more bitter about Harris' role. He said: "Two long years, only to have it killed by a man who should be for it more than anybody. Now the kids will go on eating bugs...