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| Lot # 109 VICE PRESIDENT WALTER F. MONDALE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 07/26/1979 - Document 266093 |
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WALTER F. MONDALE. Typed Letter signed: "Fritz" as Vice
President, 1p, 7x9. The Vice President, Washington, 1979 July 26. In
full: "Dear Pat, Your comments and personal note of July 16 brought
the Vice Presidential wrath down on my speechwriter, who assured me that
somebody must have misquoted me. After reading the transcript of my speech to
the U.S. Conference of Mayors I think you will agree. I did not use the
phrase 'benign neglect' at any point during the speech. Warm personal
regards." Huge handwritten postscript: "Right Again!" In
1970, as President Nixon's urban affairs adviser, Moynihan proposed a policy of
"benign neglect" toward Black Americans that drew heavy criticism. He wrote
a memorandum to the President, in part: "The time may have come when the
issue of race could benefit from a period of 'benign neglect'. The subject
has been too much talked about...We may need a period in which Negro progress
continues and racial rhetoric fades. The administration can help bring this
about by paying close attention to such progress-as we are doing-while seeking
to avoid situations in which extremists of either race are given opportunities
for martyrdom, heroics, histrionics or whatever." Mondale, formerly a U.S.
Senator from Minnesota and later U. S. Ambassador to Japan, was Jimmy Carter's
Vice President (1977-1981). He was the Democratic Party's presidential
candidate in 1984. DIRECTLY FROM THE SALE OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL PATRICK
MOYNIHAN. Moynihan, represented New York in the U.S. Senate for four terms
(1977-2001). Blank upper left corner cut off. Estate inventory numbers stamped
in left and upper margins. Otherwise, fine condition.
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