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President to Nominate Daniel Patrick Moynihan to be U.S. Representative to the United Nations with the Rank of Ambassador and U.S. Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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President to Nominate Daniel Patrick Moynihan to be U.S. Representative to the United Nations with the Rank of Ambassador and U.S. Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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Digitized from Box 11 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 21, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, of West Davenport, New York, to be
United States Representative to the United Nations with the
rank of Ambassador and U. S. Representative in the Security
Council of the United Nations. He will succeed John A. Scali
who has held this position since February 2, 1973.
Ambassador Moynihan served as Ambassador to India from 1973
to 1975 and at the present time is a Professor and Member
of the Faculty of Harvard University. In 1971, Ambassador
Moynihan was U. S. Representative to the 26th Session of the
United Nations General Assembly. Since 1969, he has been a
member of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson Inter-
national Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution
and has been its Vice Chairman since 1971. He was a member
of the President's Science Advisory Committee.
From January, 1969, to November, 1969, he was Assistant to
the President for Urban Affairs and he also was a member
and Executive Secretary of the Council on Urban Affairs. He
served as Counsellor to the President and as a Member of the
President's Cabinet from November, 1969, to January, 1971,
when he returned to Harvard. He was a Member of the Domestic
Council from its creation in July, 1970, to January, 1971,
and in January, 1971, to 1973, was Consultant to the President.
He served as Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1963 to 1965,
after he was Special Assistant (1961-62) and Executive
Assistant (1962-63) to the Secretary of Labor. Mr. Moynihan
is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
Ambassador Moynihan was born March 16, 1927, in Tulsa,
Oklahoma. He was graduated cum laude from Tufts University
in 1948 and received his M.A. in 1949 and Ph.D. in 1961 from
the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He was Director
of Public Relations for the International Rescue Committee
in 1954, Assistant Secretary and Acting Secretary to the
Governor of New York from 1955 to 1958, and Director of the
New York State Government Research Project at Syracuse
University from 1959 to 1961.
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