PROFESSOR AND THE PRESIDENT by Stephen Hess ( 9780815726159 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PROFESSOR AND THE PRESIDENT
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN IN THE NIXON WHITEHOUSE

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ISBN 10:

0815726155

ISBN 13:

9780815726159

Publisher:

BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

Pub. date:

8 December, 2014

Pages:

150

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

What happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the liberal 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 was 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 story as if from his office in the West Wing.

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Brookings Institution

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Returnable

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