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Besides the Moynihan shift, there were two other significant items on the Administration's personnel front. Donald Rumsfeld, chief of the Office of Economic Opportunity, fired Terry Lenzner, 31, head of OEO's program providing legal services to the poor (TIME, Oct. 26). The OEO recently tried to turn over to field offices some of Lenzner's administrative responsibilities. Lenzner accused Rumsfeld of "caving in" to politicians "who are determined to keep us from suing special interests close to them on behalf of the poor." Rumsfeld said Lenzner was "either unwilling or unable" to carry...
...after steadfastly supporting the measure for months, voted against it. A Health, Education and Welfare Department official saw pure politics in Harris' switch, calling him that "goddamned bastard" who "just couldn't stand the idea of Richard Nixon getting credit for this bill." Liberal Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the White House Counsellor who sold the President on the legislation, was even more bitter about Harris' role. He said: "Two long years, only to have it killed by a man who should be for it more than anybody. Now the kids will go on eating bugs...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the President's counsel on urban affairs, has refused the post of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and will resume instead his tenure as professor of Education and Urban Politics at Harvard. He insisted yesterday in Cambridge, "There was never really any plan to do anything else...
...White House disclosed Friday that Moynihan wrote the President expressing his desire to return to Harvard. The letter said in part, "Although I return to Harvard, I shall continue to be at your service for anything you might want that I might be able to provide...
...Moynihan apparently changed his mind about the U. N. post after several major newspapers confirmed a press "leak" that he was replacing Charles Yost as chief delegate to the United Nations. According to close friends in Cambridge, though, personal reasons were more important than political or institutional pressures...