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...announced guests in the oval office seemed to have been selected to erase that image of insensitivity and show the President is indeed listening to all sorts of people. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his domestic concerns had a hearing before the Chief, as did George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Donald Rumsfeld, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and Alexander Heard, the President's temporary new adviser on campus affairs...
...glasses, ate his mushroom omelette largely in silence. As they left breakfast for a final strategy meeting, several stopped at chat briefly with Carl Kaysen, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and frequently mentioned Harvard presidential candidate. "I was just here having breakfast with Daniel Patrick [Moynihan]," Kaysen said cheerfully...
Unfortunately, the federal government is sanctioning more racism today than five or ten years ago. You see Nixon trying to kill the voting rights act of '65, the Moynihan letter, trying to curb the beneficial work foundations have done among poor people, trying to reverse the very slow process of desegregation ordered by the Supreme Court in 1954. This is giving rise to overt acts of racism, like attacking school buses...
JESSE JACKSON: The first thing we must do during this period of repression is not panic, spend all of our time reacting to Nixon, Moynihan, and that crowd. and spend no time acting upon our own problems...
Increasingly, the President seems isolated from other schools of thought and other individuals once close to him. HEW Secretary Robert Finch has been battered in the racial dispute. Liberals and moderates on the White House staff, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Leonard Garment and William Safire, are slipping. In retreat with them is the notion that the Administration must conciliate, must seek new ways to retrieve the disillusioned and the disinherited...