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Former University Marshal Richard M. Hunt described Moynihan as an “incredible intellectual figure who had so many ideas about so many things.” Moynihan served as assistant labor secretary during the administration of President John F. Kennedy ’40, also a Crimson editor, and was an urban affairs adviser to President Richard M. Nixon...
...Moynihan taught at Harvard from 1966 to 1977, starting as director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard and MIT, and later teaching in the government department...
Students knew Moynihan as much for his absence from Cambridge as for his presence here. He spent about half of his time as a professor on sabattical or shuttling between Washington and Cambridge...
...Moynihan, who wrote or edited 18 books, was well-known for his studies of American race relations...
...report to President Lyndon B. Johnson titled “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” commonly known as the “Moynihan Report,” Moynihan pointed to the increase in the number of single-parent families as a fundamental reason for poverty and instability in African-American communities...