Volume 5, Number 5 · October 14, 1965
The Moynihan Report
By Christopher Jencks
After six months of private circulation among government officials and a steadily widening circle of increasingly loose-mouthed journalists, the controversial 'Moynihan Report' on the Negro family has been released to the public. Actually, the name of Daniel Patrick Moynihan appears nowhere on the 78-page pamphlet. But the authorship of the former Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy Planning (who recently ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination as President of the New York City Council and is now rumor's favorite candidate for almost every important unfilled job in Washington) is no secret. Nor is it any secret that this document, while not an official statement of federal policy, has influenced recent thinking at every level of government. It lay behind the President's call for a White House Conference in November on the problems of Negroes in general and Negro families in particular.
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