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...department has voted to let students count non-letter grades received this spring for concentration requirements. The memo suggests that students consider the "implications" of these grades before deciding whether or not to complete the work necessary for a letter grade...
...specific information for tax and criminal prosecutions. What angered O'Brien and Caplin was the notion that Mollenhoff, Nixon's political snooper, should enjoy the privilege in pursuit of partisan ends. Nixon and the IRS had the last word, however. Last week, the IRS produced a 1961 memo extending similar privileges to Carmine Bellino, the man who served J.F.K. in the same capacity as Mollenhoff serves Nixon. The authorization signature read Mortimer M. Caplin...
...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...
Maynihan's Memo Fever...
...wide circulation. It went to three other White House assistants, four Cabinet members, and no fewer than 25 copies circulated around HEW, where, Moynihan suspects, the leak occurred. Reaction from liberals was swift. Twenty-one civil rights leaders made a highly emotional public reply, complaining that the memo was a "flagrant and shameful political document." It all depended on how the memo was read: it was, after all, written in the context of White House infighting; it could easily be interpreted as a slightly veiled attack on the conservatives in the Administration, especially John Mitchell: "At the risk of indiscretion...