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...Moynihan said he was "leaving the door open, without in any way trying to open it myself." But it would hardly contribute to an image of stability for Moynihan to have served at the U.N. for eight months, bounce back to Harvard for a few months and then bounce into New York State politics...
...main reason for Moynihan's resignation, however, was his dispute with many State Department professionals. Henry Kissinger had grown increasingly impatient with the outspoken, unpredictable ambassador, whom he considered to be often out of control. Besides, Kissinger did not like being upstaged by Moynihan. Above all, he was nettled by Moynihan's attacks on the State Department. Says a presidential confidant: "Pat was using political acupuncture on Henry, and Henry finally shrieked...
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...