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100	1		_aHess, Stephen.
245	1	4	_aThe Professor and the President : _bDaniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBlue Ridge Summit : _bBrookings Institution Press, _c2014.
264		4	_c©2014.
300			_a1 online resource (194 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aFront Cover -- Inside Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- The Cast -- Preface: Between Nixon and Moynihan -- Introduction: Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows -- Part One: The Transition: November 1968 to January 1969 -- Why Nixon Wants Moynihan -- Why Moynihan Wants Nixon -- The Courtship -- The Memoranda -- Nixon: "The Durable Man -- Part Two: A Year of Turmoil: 1969 -- A Full Agenda -- Inauguration Day: January 20 -- Nixon's Team of Rivals -- At Work in the West Wing Basement -- The Urban Affairs Council -- Beyond the Great Society -- Tutorial -- Social Scientist at Large in the White House -- The 75-Day Mark: April 14 -- Moynihan at Notre Dame: June 1 -- Nixon -- Welfare Reform: Moynihan's White Whale -- Nixon's Address to the Nation: August 8 -- Time for Change: November 4 -- Planting Greatness -- On Fertile Ground -- Part Three: A Year of Departures: 1970 -- Unfinished Business -- An Unexpected Invitation -- Afterword -- Notes on Writing this Book -- Index -- Back Cover.
520			_aWhat happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard's Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the oddest. Add another Ivy League professor to the White House staff when Nixon appoints Columbia's Arthur Burns, a conservative economist, as domestic policy adviser. The year is 1969, and what follows behind closed doors is a passionate debate of conflicting ideologies and personalities. Who won? How? Why? Now nearly a half-century later, Stephen Hess, who was Nixon's biographer and Moynihan's deputy, recounts this fascinating story as if from his office in the West Wing. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) described in the Almanac of American Politics as "the nation's best thinker among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician among thinkers since Jefferson", served in the administrations of four presidents, was ambassador to India, and U.S. representative to the United Nations, and was four times elected to the U.S. Senate from New York. Praise for the works of Stephen Hess Organzing the Presidency Any president would benefit from reading Mr. Hess's analysis and any reader will enjoy the elegance with which it is written and the author's wide knowledge and good sense. -The Economist The Presidential Campaign Hess brings not only first-rate credentials, but a cool, dispassionate perspective, an incisive analytical approach, and a willingness to stick his neck out in making judgments. -American Political Science Review From the Newswork Series It is not much in vogue to speak of things like the public trust, but thankfully Stephen Hess is old fashioned. He reminds us in this valuable and provocative book that journalism is a public trust, providing
520	8		_athe basic information on which citizens in a democracy vote, or tune out. -- Ken A.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aMoynihan, Daniel P. -- (Daniel Patrick), -- 927-2003.
650		0	_aNixon, Richard M. -- (Richard Milhous), -- 913-1994.
650		0	_aUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aHess, Stephen _tThe Professor and the President _dBlue Ridge Summit : Brookings Institution Press,c2014 _z9780815726159
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1793979 _zClick to View
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