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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...
...negative image among some black voters," and polls taken two weeks ago show Moynihan may receive only half the black support usually accorded a Democratic nominee. Kenneth Clark, a prominent black social scientist at the City University of New York, has even gone so far as to endorse Buckley...
...black political leaders have followed Clark's lead, and the question seems to be not whether black voters will pick Buckley, who has consistently voted against social welfare programs that benefit many poor blacks, but whether they will vote at all. And despite the Council of Black Elected Democrats' refusal to endorse Moynihan, over ten of its members, including Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) have done so individually...
...Buckley, if you must, please use all of my letter in your petty, joyless, losing campaign. David W. Oaks...
Gordon is vice-president of Kidder, Peabody and Co., an investment banking firm in New York City. He also sits on Buckley's finance committee, but he denies that partisan interests prompted him to write the letters...