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Preparing to catch an evening flight to Washington, Moynihan sat in the back of a Yellow Cab and speculated about the next academic semester. "I've not given a lot of thought about what I will do, but I hope to pick up where I left off, teaching at the School of Education. I'd like to start a seminar which will go into the implications of the Coleman Report [on equal educational opportunity]." Moynihan was running a similar faculty-graduate seminar before he left, and co-edited with Professor Frederick Mosteller a volume of seminar papers which will...
During the last two years Moynihan has kept one foot in Cambridge and the other in Washington, commuting by plane almost every weekend to his home on Frncis Avenue across from the Divinity School...
Harvard allows a leave of absence for only two years, but Moynihan made it clear that this deadline was not a major factor in his decision to return. "Two years was about what I expected," he said, mentioning that he had turned down offers to teach elsewhere at higher salaries. "My children are happy here in Cambridge, and my friends are here...
...yesterday's interview, Moynihan emphasized the technical rather than the political nature of his role as Nixon's chief urbanologist. "What distinguishes one administration from another is not so much shifts in abstract policy positions as improvements in social science analysis," he said. He described his job as one of pointing out "the hidden policies of government, the policies not perceived as policies, and forcing the government to con-centrate on the second-, third-, and fourth-order effects of these policies...
...Moynihan cited the problem of black emigration from the ghettos. In his opinion, the Federal government need only keep from acting in such a way as to prevent the normal dispersal of the population outwards. But many agencies have thwarted the natural movement, "such as the FHA, by requiring neighborhoods to use Federal funds to create homogeneous populations...