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Contrary to your insinuations, Daniel P. Moynihan's "benign neglect" memorandum [May 5] did not recommend indifference to black needs. Why indeed would the author of the Family Assistance Plan, whose main beneficiaries would have been the black poor, have recommended such a policy? Writing in January 1970, Moynihan described the "extraordinary progress" blacks had made in the decade just ended and the various threats to that progress, including the pre-emption of the racial issue by "paranoids ... on all sides." He urged the President to pay "close attention to such progress" while seeking-and here is where benign...
...That Moynihan's memo should have been misrepresented in the overheated political climate of the time is explicable if still reprehensible. But there is surely no reason to go on doing so today when the only purpose served is the wanton undermining of a brilliant public servant...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, LL.D., Ambassador-Designate...
Honorable mention was awarded to Ronald M. Childress. Andrew M. Clearfield Michael Gates. John Gordon, Matthew Gurewitsch. Amy Johnson and Christopher D. Jones in the graduate division; Anthony L. DeFranco '75, in the natural sciences division; and Cass R. Sunstein '75, Daniel R.D. MacKenzie '75. Robert P. B. Moynihan '75-2, Daniel M. Mandil '78, and Richard C. Harper '75 in the undergraduate division...
Presumably among the most disturbed was Pat Moynihan, who, in a widely discussed article in the March issue of Commentary, urged the U.S. to take up, in the U.N. and elsewhere, the role of the loyal opposition to ideologically extreme Third World positions. "It is time we grew out of our initial-not a little condescending-supersen-sitivity about the feelings of new nations," wrote Moynihan, urging the U.S. to treat Third World nations "as equals" and to end its "extraordinarily passive, even compliant" policy toward them. Doubtless bearing that sharply worded article in mind, one Latin American diplomat...