As he prepared to leave the White House staff for a teaching post at Harvard, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was brooding about the morale and the reputation of the Nixon Administration. Somehow, Moynihan thought, the President and his men were dispirited, and sometimes almost half believed their worst press notices—about lack of accomplishment, a certain institutional Republican grayness. an obtuseness and even a repressive urge.
With the instinct of a buoyant Irish priest, Moynihan decided to part on an inspirational note. He rose in the White House to speak at a year-end meeting of Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officers, and when he...
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