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With the possible exception of Elliot Richardson '41, Daniel Patrick Moynihan boasts one of the most impressive resumes of any American political figure in recent memory. If he succeeds in defeating New York Senator James L. Buckley in the latter's bid for re-election, Moynihan, Harvard's sometime Professor of Government who in the past 15-odd years has served three presidents as domestic affairs adviser, Ambassador to India, and most recently, Chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, will have yet another impressive title to add to his list...
...this point it's still hard to predict with certainty the outcome of tomorrow's election. Moynihan, who began the campaign with an estimated 13 percentage point advantage over his incumbent opponent, has watched his lead shrink to a mere four to six points though the most recent polls show him making a comeback. Since the polls have a three-point margin of error, the campaign would seem to be a horse race, if not a dead heat...
...factor in tomorrow's election will be the action--or inaction--of New York's estimated half million black voters. Moynihan's political problem with blacks stems from his study of the black family in which he alleged that a "pathological" matriarchal structure was in part responsible for blacks' inferior socio-economic status, and from a memo to former president Richard M. Nixon suggesting that the Administration cool the volatile political climbate by adopting a policy of "benign neglect" on racial and urban matters. Although Moynihan has said repeatedly that the "benign neglect" remark was quoted out of context...
...point? Mr. Moynihan descends from the clouds and media one day less; and several students learn nothing of ethnicity in politics, but plenty of celebrity at Harvard. Whatever will New York learn...
Because of my schedule I did not attend the special class, and returned Tuesday only to find Moynihan, "liking the size," had made the Wednesday change permanent. Another student described this selection method very simply: "devious." Registration was the next day. By coincidence, the change created a two-day teaching schedule for Moynihan...