This political article was about Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the life he lived. As an adviser to President Nixon, Moynihan promoted a guaranteed minimum income for all families, in part to help unravel the “tangle of pathology” he had famously diagnosed in his report on “The Negro Family” in 1969. He gave a speech calling for liberals and conservatives to unite “to preserve democratic institutions from the looming forces of the authoritarian left and right”, which landed him the job as Nixon’s advisor.
Influenced greatly by the civil-rights movement, Moynihan focused on African-American families and he believed that the passage of civil-rights legislation was concealing a persistent problem: the deficit of employed black men who had strong
Influenced greatly by the civil-rights movement, Moynihan focused on African-American families and he believed that the passage of civil-rights legislation was concealing a persistent problem: the deficit of employed black men who had strong