Word: neglectment
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Trial by Crisis. The strike was the result of long-term Government neglect. President Nixon himself acknowledged that Post Office employees were unjustly treated when he first entered Government 23 years ago and that little had been done to improve their lot. That failure gave the Nixon Administration its first real trial by crisis, and the President handled it with considerable skill. His options were few. Seeking to avoid either showing weakness or risking exacerbating the situation by overreaction, Nixon chose a cautious middle course. Having threatened to take action if the strike was not ended by the first...
...outweighed by other acts: the go-slow on desegregation, the attempt to dilute the Voting Rights Act, the Haynsworth and Carswell nominations, the general lack of warmth, concern and responsibility for blacks on the part of the White House. When Presidential Adviser Daniel P. Moynihan counseled "benign neglect" in his now famous memo, his stated intention was only to remove hysteria from both sides of the racial struggle. But the phrase seems to describe the Administration's attitude on race in general- and most blacks even question the accuracy of the word benign...
...There you go, quoting Clairvoyant Maurice Woodruff on his grim predictions in McCall's magazine for the Messrs. Reagan and Agnew [March 9]. Fine. But you neglect his one really important prediction, "Richard Nixon will gain great popularity in 1970. Comes time for reelection, I guarantee that he will be almost unopposed." Ah, but you don't like that...
...Counsellor to the President could not resist the fetching phrase "benign neglect" to describe his notion of the proper attitude the Government should now have toward race relations. Predictably enough, the document caused a sensation. Last week two more of his papers trickled out of the federal bureaucracy. Both were dated just before Richard Nixon was inaugurated as President, but they nevertheless drew fire from both conservatives and liberals and kept Moynihan a foremost topic of national controversy (TIME, March...
...number of Negroes in professional and technical jobs doubled. Moynihan allowed that bitter hostility toward whites was widespread among young blacks and that the Nixon Administration had done little to reassure the Negro community. Nevertheless, he wondered if it was not time for "a period of 'benign neglect' "* on the subject of race. "We may need a period in which Negro progress continues and racial rhetoric fades...