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...following are excerpts from Daniel P. Moynihan's analysis of the coming of age of the civil rights movement. The original appears in this month's COMMENTARY as "The President and the Negro: The Moment Lost...
...bold beginning" was President Johnson's speech at Howard University on June 4, 1965. Johnson focused on the problem of Negro family disintegration; Moynihan calls the speech unprecedented for an American President. That speech was the result of Moynihan's report for the Labor Department, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action...
...Rainwater and William L. Yancey have written a book about the con-controversy that ensured [The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy, M.I.T. Press (forthcoming)] and much that here follows draws on them. Predictably, albeit unbeknown to the White House, trouble began within the permanent government, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. calls the civil-service bureaucracies. The report and the speech were wholly the product of the Presidential government. The welfare bureaucracy knew nothing of either, but as closer inquiry put the two together it was instantly perceived that the adequacy of the welfare bureaucracy's efforts and even...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies were among sixteen prominent citizens named to help formulate Democratic party policy...
They have no regrets about leaving their convent, no resentment at the years they spent there. "We have nothing in our hearts except great gratitude for the spiritual and professional training we received," says Mary Moynihan, 33. "They gave us everything they had." At the same time, they believe that their approach to cooperative living may lead to still other experiments in lay spirituality that the church may some day accept and bless as valid alternatives to the cloister and the wall...