Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...positively obsessed with them, and also with Jerry Brown (whom he feels represents a new fascist politics of scarcity), and Jimmy Carter (totally bogus), and C.L. Sulzberger, the major foreign policy voice for Cockburn's "Center Right Coalition," an auspicious group including the likes of Daniel P. Moynihan, Marty Peretz, and half the Harvard faculty...
What finally caused Moynihan to resign, friends say, was a column by New York Timesman James Reston that said "Messrs. Ford and Kissinger support him in public and deplore him in private." Moynihan figured that Kissinger fed that directly to Reston. The day after the column appeared, Moynihan quit. His critics believe he had been looking for just such an excuse...
Kissinger denied he wanted to force Moynihan out. They were old friends, he insisted, and he had recommended Moynihan for the ambassadorship to India as well as the U.N. job. Moynihan's successor, said Kissinger, would continue the same policy of confronting America's critics, though in a more restrained way. "There are no two Pat Moynihans in America," Kissinger remarked with apparent relief. The U.N. job has been offered to William Scranton, former Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, though he turned it down once before. Cracked a top State Department aide: "We're not going to give...
...President was genuinely sorry to see Moynihan go. "Pat was doing precisely what the President wanted him to do," said a White House aide. The widespread approval of Moynihan's strategy-notably from the party's rebellious right wing-was obviously a plus for the President...
Good Man. As soon as Moynihan quit, Ronald Reagan started making him a campaign issue. Isn't it too bad, Reagan told an audience in southern Florida, that the Administration could not keep such a good man? "He was the first ambassador saying a lot of things to those jokers up there that should be said." However, no one emerged from the Moynihan affair with very much credit. The ambassador appeared to be excessively petulant. Kissinger looked like a man who had undermined a valuable if hard-to-handle ambassador. And the President, still wounded by the recent resignation...