Word: moynihans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
James Wechsler, a columnist in. The New York Post, charged in an August 30 article that Moynihan interchanged his own thoughts for Nixon's specifically when Moynihan wrote that Nixon is dreaming "of a new coalition not built on fears, but built on common hopes. He sees as its unifying principle not total agreement or even substantial agreement about the particulars of program and policy, but rather recognition of the need for civility in working out ways to approach the great goals of the society. As he sees it, the Stevensonian concept of civility is accessible equally to persons north...
Wechsler also questioned Moynihan's article because it contained no direct quotes from the President...
Martin Kilson, professor of Government, in a letter to Life dated September 10 charged that "Moynihan's equation of the new (second) term Nixon with the late Adlai Stevenson is one of the most extraordinary manipulations of truth for political ends I have seen in some time. Intellectual huckstering has, alas clearly entered...
When asked to comment on these charges last week, Moynihan seemed unmoved. All I did was report what the President had to say. People may not like it, but that's all that I did," he said...
...Moynihan explained that he had used no direct quotation simply because there is a Presidential rule against the President granting interviews." Of course exceptions are made to the rule, but in this case all that I did was take notes on what the President said," he said...