WEBVTT 00:00.667 --> 00:01.801 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - Ladies and gentlemen, 00:01.801 --> 00:03.203 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% I have another major announcement 00:03.203 --> 00:05.138 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% with regard to the White House staff. 00:05.138 --> 00:06.940 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - When he came back and he told me 00:06.940 --> 00:10.510 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that Nixon had asked him to be his domestic advisor 00:10.510 --> 00:15.181 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and that he accepted, I was enraged, 00:15.181 --> 00:16.850 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I have to tell you. 00:16.850 --> 00:19.686 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I was just devastated, but furious. 00:21.454 --> 00:23.990 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - When he went into the Nixon Administration 00:23.990 --> 00:27.560 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% against the advice of his wife and friends, 00:27.560 --> 00:31.431 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Nixon was the devil and going to work for Nixon 00:31.431 --> 00:32.599 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% was a disgrace. 00:32.599 --> 00:34.134 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Presidents don't need advisors 00:34.134 --> 00:35.935 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% who agree with them about everything. 00:35.935 --> 00:37.704 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They agree with you, then you've got one man 00:37.704 --> 00:39.172 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on the payroll you don't need. 00:40.073 --> 00:42.842 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - He had no stake in Nixon. 00:42.842 --> 00:46.012 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% He had a stake, as he felt it, in the presidency. 00:46.012 --> 00:47.814 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - You can come home every weekend. 00:47.814 --> 00:50.250 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% You can commute. We're not gonna move. 00:51.684 --> 00:53.920 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Reporter] Urban Affairs advisor, Daniel Moynihan, 00:53.920 --> 00:55.321 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% told how the new administration 00:55.321 --> 00:57.057 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% hopes to attack urban problems. 00:58.291 --> 01:00.060 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - As Moynihan said to me in my interview 01:00.060 --> 01:01.294 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% for the job with him, 01:01.294 --> 01:03.029 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% he said, "John, I want you to work with me 01:03.029 --> 01:04.531 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on everything I'm doing." 01:04.531 --> 01:07.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And he said, "That is domestic policy. 01:07.133 --> 01:09.836 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% That is urban policy and that is, therefore, 01:09.836 --> 01:11.871 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% policy about the Black community." 01:11.871 --> 01:14.574 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Now, having an urban policy is no more a guarantor 01:14.574 --> 01:17.610 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of success with cities than having a foreign policy 01:17.610 --> 01:20.713 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% as a guarantor of success in say, world peace, 01:20.713 --> 01:22.515 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% but it's a condition of success. 01:22.515 --> 01:24.017 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I mean, you have to start- 01:24.017 --> 01:25.418 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - [Narrator] Moynihan's portfolio 01:25.418 --> 01:28.621 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% was the newly-created Council on Urban Affairs, 01:28.621 --> 01:31.424 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but its chairman was the President himself, 01:31.424 --> 01:33.860 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% making the council the powerful center 01:33.860 --> 01:36.729 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% for all domestic policy in the Nixon Administration. 01:39.699 --> 01:42.635 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - Pat was like a Roman candle going up. 01:42.635 --> 01:45.371 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The sparks were in the sky all over the place. 01:45.371 --> 01:46.840 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% You go into a meeting with him 01:46.840 --> 01:49.142 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and you really wouldn't know what was on his mind. 01:49.142 --> 01:51.444 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% He could be all over the lot. 01:51.444 --> 01:53.213 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Pat was a gingerman in some ways. 01:53.213 --> 01:56.983 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% He was a yeasty, idea-creating person. 01:56.983 --> 01:59.552 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% For example, he brought in Bruno Bettelheim, 01:59.552 --> 02:02.322 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% who had written of children in the kibbutz in Israel 02:02.322 --> 02:05.325 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and about the importance of early child development 02:05.325 --> 02:07.560 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and forthwith, Nixon created 02:07.560 --> 02:09.963 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the first Office of Early Child Development 02:09.963 --> 02:12.599 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.