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...Johnson and Nixon Administrations. President Ford's 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...
Leonard said he replied to the memo from Washington. "I told Holmes his letter is despicable," he said...
...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...
This year, warned Touche Ross & Co., a major New York accounting firm, stockholders worried by the recession would show up in force and ask tough, possibly angry questions. To help such clients as Sears, Roebuck & Co., Boeing and Prudential Insurance, Touche Ross put together a memo warning management to expect sharp queries in three main areas: the ability of the company to cope with such business conditions as liquidity shortages, the management of corporate assets, and the reliability of the firm's financial reports. Early meetings have borne out the predictions. At last week's annual meeting...
...group of four or five armed men slipped past a formidable electronic alarm system and heavy locks and overwhelmed the guard. Using acetylene torches, the men burned their way into the safes and filing cabinets that contained some of Hughes' most sensitive documents, including one memo outlining his participation in Jennifer. Since the robbery was executed with such un erring accuracy, some people speculated that either it was an inside job in which Hughes had in effect robbed himself to get rid of incriminating documents, or the CIA did the favor for him. Then a man claiming to represent...