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...Moynihan gave 'em hell, but his ego trip alienated our allies...
Asked whether he might resign, Kissinger replied that he had no plans to "follow Dr. Moynihan either to Harvard or out of Government" (see story following page). Though he realizes he will probably not be in office next year no matter who is elected, he wants to stay on the job for 1976. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter reports: "Kissinger sees himself as holding the structure of the nation's foreign policy together, and he is in no position to hand over foreign policy to a successor now. He fears the impact of his leaving would contribute...
Until the very last moment, Daniel Patrick Moynihan claims, he did not know whether he would quit as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. "I made up my mind 30 times," he said. "It's like Mark Twain said: 'Giving up smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.' " Last week Moynihan finally made up his mind: he was resigning...
Nobody was more surprised than his boss. Only five days before, Moynihan had assured the President that he would remain at the U.N. On learning the news, Ford frowned and asked...
Institutional Loyalty. The answer was complex. Moynihan explained that Harvard insisted on his returning this semester; otherwise, he would lose his tenure. He had been granted two two-year leaves: the first to work as an aide to President Nixon, the second to serve as Ambassador to India. He had only been back one semester when he took the U.N. job. Harvard is insistent on "institutional loyalty," says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman. "There would be not much leeway with anyone, particularly someone like Moynihan who had shown a somewhat tenuous or peripatetic relationship to the institution."* Though...