1 00:00:00,667 --> 00:00:01,801 - Ladies and gentlemen, 2 00:00:01,801 --> 00:00:03,203 I have another major announcement 3 00:00:03,203 --> 00:00:05,138 with regard to the White House staff. 4 00:00:05,138 --> 00:00:06,940 - When he came back and he told me 5 00:00:06,940 --> 00:00:10,510 that Nixon had asked him to be his domestic advisor 6 00:00:10,510 --> 00:00:15,181 and that he accepted, I was enraged, 7 00:00:15,181 --> 00:00:16,850 I have to tell you. 8 00:00:16,850 --> 00:00:19,686 I was just devastated, but furious. 9 00:00:21,454 --> 00:00:23,990 - When he went into the Nixon Administration 10 00:00:23,990 --> 00:00:27,560 against the advice of his wife and friends, 11 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,431 Nixon was the devil and going to work for Nixon 12 00:00:31,431 --> 00:00:32,599 was a disgrace. 13 00:00:32,599 --> 00:00:34,134 - Presidents don't need advisors 14 00:00:34,134 --> 00:00:35,935 who agree with them about everything. 15 00:00:35,935 --> 00:00:37,704 They agree with you, then you've got one man 16 00:00:37,704 --> 00:00:39,172 on the payroll you don't need. 17 00:00:40,073 --> 00:00:42,842 - He had no stake in Nixon. 18 00:00:42,842 --> 00:00:46,012 He had a stake, as he felt it, in the presidency. 19 00:00:46,012 --> 00:00:47,814 - You can come home every weekend. 20 00:00:47,814 --> 00:00:50,250 You can commute. We're not gonna move. 21 00:00:51,684 --> 00:00:53,920 - [Reporter] Urban Affairs advisor, Daniel Moynihan, 22 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,321 told how the new administration 23 00:00:55,321 --> 00:00:57,057 hopes to attack urban problems. 24 00:00:58,291 --> 00:01:00,060 - As Moynihan said to me in my interview 25 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:01,294 for the job with him, 26 00:01:01,294 --> 00:01:03,029 he said, "John, I want you to work with me 27 00:01:03,029 --> 00:01:04,531 on everything I'm doing." 28 00:01:04,531 --> 00:01:07,133 And he said, "That is domestic policy. 29 00:01:07,133 --> 00:01:09,836 That is urban policy and that is, therefore, 30 00:01:09,836 --> 00:01:11,871 policy about the Black community." 31 00:01:11,871 --> 00:01:14,574 - Now, having an urban policy is no more a guarantor 32 00:01:14,574 --> 00:01:17,610 of success with cities than having a foreign policy 33 00:01:17,610 --> 00:01:20,713 as a guarantor of success in say, world peace, 34 00:01:20,713 --> 00:01:22,515 but it's a condition of success. 35 00:01:22,515 --> 00:01:24,017 I mean, you have to start- 36 00:01:24,017 --> 00:01:25,418 - [Narrator] Moynihan's portfolio 37 00:01:25,418 --> 00:01:28,621 was the newly-created Council on Urban Affairs, 38 00:01:28,621 --> 00:01:31,424 but its chairman was the President himself, 39 00:01:31,424 --> 00:01:33,860 making the council the powerful center 40 00:01:33,860 --> 00:01:36,729 for all domestic policy in the Nixon Administration. 41 00:01:39,699 --> 00:01:42,635 - Pat was like a Roman candle going up. 42 00:01:42,635 --> 00:01:45,371 The sparks were in the sky all over the place. 43 00:01:45,371 --> 00:01:46,840 You go into a meeting with him 44 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,142 and you really wouldn't know what was on his mind. 45 00:01:49,142 --> 00:01:51,444 He could be all over the lot. 46 00:01:51,444 --> 00:01:53,213 - Pat was a gingerman in some ways. 47 00:01:53,213 --> 00:01:56,983 He was a yeasty, idea-creating person. 48 00:01:56,983 --> 00:01:59,552 For example, he brought in Bruno Bettelheim, 49 00:01:59,552 --> 00:02:02,322 who had written of children in the kibbutz in Israel 50 00:02:02,322 --> 00:02:05,325 and about the importance of early child development 51 00:02:05,325 --> 00:02:07,560 and forthwith, Nixon created 52 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,963 the first Office of Early Child Development 53 00:02:09,963 --> 00:02:12,599 in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.