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...choice of Moynihan has not been confirmed by the White House; however, it is expected that Moynihan will go to the U.N. some time this summer. Now a professor of government at Harvard, he is best remembered for his confidential memo to Nixon setting forth the notion of "benign neglect" toward blacks. When the memo was leaked, it drew a stinging series of attacks from blacks and others, but Moynihan insisted he had only meant that black rhetoric should be taken less seriously, not black needs or aspirations...
...daughter. If that means that the work we are doing for the book suffers some, then so be it. One of the reasons we are doing all this is because our parents were taken away from us. But I'll be damned if I'll neglect my child in order to try to right what was done...
...administrator pointed to a 1969 memo by Daniel P. Moynthan, professor of Government, to then-President Nixon advocating a period of "benign neglect" toward racial issues. Leonard said it resulted in a policy of "malignant retreat" from black people's progress...
...make such a facile equation, as Beatty does, is like collapsing the seven rings of hell into one, and subjecting the child shoplifter to the same tortures as the bloodthirsty murderer. If Nixon were to play George, he wouldn't simply neglect his girlfriend, his customers, and his associates for the transient pleasure of a good lay; he would place a tape recorder under the bed, to record the groans as evidence for possible blackmail. The reality of Orange County is not simply the flashy cars, the bright lights, the shiny mirrors of George's Los Angeles...
...happens to be exceptionally good at it, but it forces him to neglect other tasks. Furthermore, because the U.S. President has been so long removed from the foreign policy arena ? first Nix on because of Watergate, then Ford because of inexperience ? Kissinger has been forced to act, in the eyes of the world, as a sort of deputy President for international affairs. As a result, pol icy failures implicate him personally and intensify the loss of the aura of infallibility that had once made him appear to be the magician of world diplomacy. Says a high British foreign...