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.
The year is 1969, and what follows behind closed doors is.
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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