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...book also has its strong defenders, for example Harvard Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan. "All new information is thought to be threatening at first," he says. Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell calls Inequality "an argument both against stilted American myths and vulgarized Marxism," and Yale Psychologist Edward Zigler, former director of the U.S. Office of Child Development, agrees that "we've been sold a bill of goods. School people keep saying we should do more, whereas the real wave of the future is for schools to do less and let other social institutions play a larger role...
Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Education and Urban Politics, who played a major role in John F. Kennedy's victory in New York State in 1960, wrote an article in the September 1 issue of Life magazine on how President Nixon views his second term in office...
...Moynihan, who was an advisor in the Nixon Administration as well as in those of Kennedy and Johnson, has drawn fire from both columnists and fellow Harvard professors, who contend that Moynihan glorified Nixon and that Moynihan made poor arguments to justify his contentions...
Joseph Kraft, in a syndicated column appearing in The Boston Globe on September 11, charged that Moynihan was repeating "utter nonsense" in hope of "finding favor" with the White House. He wrote that Moynihan did not use valid evidence to prove his assertion that Nixon was against quotas when Moynihan cited the large number of Jews with high Administration posts...
...whites. For all the gains of those families in the growing black middle class, about 31% of blacks remained below the poverty line, compared with 10% of the whites. Among the black poor, 56% lived in families headed by only a mother - lending some added credence to Daniel Patrick Moynihan's much-debated thesis that family structure is part of the pathology of black poverty. The statistics can also be read to support the idea of some form of income maintenance - an idea embraced in principle by both Richard Nixon and George McGovern. Unlike the present welfare system, which...