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...President Nixon said to me, 'India is the world's largest democracy and I'd like you to go as our ambassador,'" Moynihan said "And I certainly didn't have any way out of that...
...Although Moynihan has most recently worked in domestic policy making, his professional training dealt with international affairs. He said that he traveled abroad in diplomatic capacities several times for the last three presidents...
...Moynihan said yesterday that New Delhi's approval was a routine diplomatic gesture. "No one is ever turned down. If they turn someone down, you'd have to go to war, for heaven's sake," he said...
Kenneth E. Keating former ambassador to India who resigned earlier this year, praised Moynihan's appointment in a telephone interview Sunday night. "I think it's an excelient appointment," Keating said...
...leading urban sociologist and co- author of Beyoad the Making Pet. Moynihan helped draft the first Federal anti-poverty legislation in 1963 as an economic advisor to President John F. Kennedy '40. He completed the project in 1964 as the Economic Opportunity Act under President Lyndon Johnson's administration...