Cargando…

The Professor and the President : Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House /

What 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 I...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hess, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front 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 14Moynihan 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