Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JESSE JACKSON: The first thing we must do during this period of repression is not panic, spend all of our time reacting to Nixon, Moynihan, and that crowd. and spend no time acting upon our own problems...
Increasingly, the President seems isolated from other schools of thought and other individuals once close to him. HEW Secretary Robert Finch has been battered in the racial dispute. Liberals and moderates on the White House staff, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Leonard Garment and William Safire, are slipping. In retreat with them is the notion that the Administration must conciliate, must seek new ways to retrieve the disillusioned and the disinherited...
...street rhetoric" subject to indictment while "political rhetoric" isn't [March 16]? David Milliard's rhetoric threatened one human life. Moynihan's imperils the lives of millions...
...such accomplishments are far outweighed by other acts: the go-slow on desegregation, the attempt to dilute the Voting Rights Act, the Haynsworth and Carswell nominations, the general lack of warmth, concern and responsibility for blacks on the part of the White House. When Presidential Adviser Daniel P. Moynihan counseled "benign neglect" in his now famous memo, his stated intention was only to remove hysteria from both sides of the racial struggle. But the phrase seems to describe the Administration's attitude on race in general- and most blacks even question the accuracy of the word benign...
...reminded that Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has recently aggravated our social confusion over the racial issue while allegedly attempting to clarify it, is co-author of a work which insists that the American melting pot didn't melt because our white ethnic groups have resisted all assimilative forces that appear to threaten their identities. The problem here is that few Americans know who and what they really are. That is why few of these groups-or at least few of the children of these groups-have been able to resist the movies, television, baseball, jazz, football, drum-majoretting, rock...