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Daniel P. Moynihan, one of the Administration's few conspicuous phrasemakers and men of letters, was caught in a literary lapse by a New York Times reader who could not believe that the Presidential Counsellor meant to say "We have become a noisome country" in a recent speech. Moynihan confessed in his letter to the paper that "after hasty consultation with Webster's Second Edition," he had tried-unsuccessfully-to swing a deal with a reporter to have the word rendered as "querulous." Then he concluded with a verbal flourish: "Thus does truth subvert semantics...
...spokesmen and liberal legislators replied heatedly, alleging that Moynihan had an elitist and calculating approach to poverty programs...
Since assuming office in the Nixon Administration in 1968, Moynihan has been the subject of attacks from blacks and conservative senators. Congressional conservatives denounced Moynihan's influence in President Nixon's Welfare Reform proposals-proposals which standards in all 50 states and a guaranteed minimum income for poor families...
...Moynihan's penchant for controversyspread to members of his staff, Richard D. Blumenthal '67, who went to Washington with Moynihan as an aide, was offered the job of director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), and OEO community organizing project. Ninety-one members of Congress-some of whom had criticized VISTA as a group of "troublemakers"-signed a petition to Nixon urging him to withdraw the offer...
...Moynihan announced his plans to resign, he admitted that the Welfare Reform package is in trouble in Congress. "It would take a miracle to get it through," he said...