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Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation was a financial windfall for the school. Its budget soared from $2 million in 1960 to an $8.2 million peak in 1968, 57 per cent of which was supplied by the government. Men like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, Christopher Jencks, and David Cohen rode in on the harvest...
This year the conference was held in the relaxed atmosphere of a resort near Acapulco, Mexico. Among the Government officials attending were George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Counsellor to the President; Charles Walker, Under Secretary of the Treasury; Preston Martin, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; and Allan Oakley Hunter, president of the Federal National Mortgage Association. They were joined by 80 leaders from every sector of the housing industry. That is quite an increase since the first meeting at Pebble Beach, Calif., when the presidents of the National Association of Home...
Intuitive ideas about complex social systems are likely to be wrong, Moynihan asserted. He referred to his own faith in the family-assistance plan as a "possible example...
Wrapping up his third tour of duty in government as an academic-on-leave, Moynihan seemed pleased with the commitments made by the Nixon Administration to welfare reform, population control, and revenue sharing ("a real change in the nature of federalism"). On balance, the government is doing about as well as it did during the Kennedy-Johnson era," he said. "The performance of government is by-and-large more consistent than that of the American press. The press runs in cycles- at one moment, it is celebratory, and then it is depressed; at one moment the President...
...Moynihan has seen the fake extra of the Yale Daily News, widely distributed in Harvard dorms, which proclaimed him the new President of Harvard. "I thought it extremely well-done." He added playfully: "I was thinking of sending a copy to Henry Kissinger...