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Another partial success of the '60s was overshadowed by unforeseen consequences, what Daniel P. Moynihan has called the "hidden policies" that inevitably accompany the intended ones. In 1968, the last year of the Johnson Administration, Congress passed a massive housing bill that contributed to the biggest residential building boom in U.S. history: 3 million housing starts in 1970, compared with the previous record of 2 million...
...holiday as warm as Moynihan's curry...
...Choices for America, a kind of ad hoc think tank that will debate the central issues of the day. Its 40 members, all chosen by Rocky from various pursuits and from both major political parties, include Vice President Gerald Ford; Sol Linowitz, chairman of the National Urban Coalition; Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to India; Ivan Allen, former mayor of Atlanta; Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; William Paley, chairman of the board of CBS; Historian Daniel Boorstin; Physicist Edward Teller and Clare Boothe Luce...
...President Nixon said to me, 'India is the world's largest democracy and I'd like you to go as our ambassador,"'Moynihan said at the time of his appointment. "And I certainly didn't have any way out of that...
...Moynihan had previously served the Nixon Administration as a domestic affairs adviser to the President...