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...ambassador also had to know that the cable would further antagonize Kissinger. Within the State Department, it was widely seen as self-serving. Said one observer, invoking a Norman Mailer book: "It should have been called Advertisements for Myself" Department officials feel Moynihan overstated his success in getting African nations to respond to his pressure. The indiscreet naming of specific nations and specific leaders* may have actually hampered the policy Moynihan advocates. U.N. watchers note, for example, that with Moynihan slated to assume the presidency of the Security Council this week, on its regular monthly rotation, a number of Third...
...What was Moynihan up to? Was he trying to protect himself against a State Department cabal? Did he really feel threatened by Kissinger's often unflattering private comments about him? Or was Democrat Moynihan trying to get fired, thus setting the stage for a martyred resignation so he could go after Conservative Senator James Buckley's New York seat this year...
...Moynihan had secretly hoped to goad the Secretary into taking public action against him, Kissinger disappointed him. Although in other circumstances any Secretary of State might well have felt justified in asking for Moynihan's head, Kissinger said soothingly. "Moynihan is doing an outstanding job at the United Nations, and he has the full support of the President, the Secretary of State and the Department of State." Kissinger later endorsed Moynihan's outspoken views by saying that the U.S. would regard the U.N. votes of other countries on issues of importance to the U.S. as signs...
...effect of the latest Moynihan flap was undoubtedly to weaken his position within the State Department and at the U.N., but to strengthen once again his personal position with the public...
Informal Polls. Moynihan's friends and critics alike suspect he wants to get into the Senate race. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug have a large organizational lead for the nomination, however, and former New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, though not a candidate, has done well in the polls. Moynihan told TIME he had no intention of making speeches at the U.N. for the rest of his life, but he also insisted, "I am not running for the Senate and haven't the slightest intention of doing...