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Papers Show Moynihan in Full Voice Under Nixon
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jul 02, 2010 10:52pm |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Author | Sam Roberts |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Saturday, July 3, 2010 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | He complained about the “Schrafft’s in the basement” color scheme proposed for the White House mess. He warned of the alienation of American blacks. He predicted the potential impact of global warming. He scoffed that anyone could seriously think the public still supported the Vietnam War. And he repeatedly chided his White House colleagues, saying they were making policy on the basis of unproved assumptions.
In 90,000 pages of letters and memorandums released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, counselor and assistant to the president for urban affairs from January 1969 through December 1970 and a future senator from New York, prodded the president and his White House colleagues to deliver on a domestic agenda and expressed exasperation over the government’s entropy.
He contended that Southern governors who doled out largess to poor whites and welfare rights leaders who supported poor blacks opposed the proposed Family Assistance Plan, which included a form of guaranteed income, for the same reason: they would be put “out of business.”
In his memorandum suggesting that discourse on race would benefit from a period of “benign neglect,” he also warned about “the incidence of antisocial behavior among young black males,” and added: “Apart from white racial attitudes, this is the biggest problem black Americans face, and in part it helps shape white racial attitudes.” |
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