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Exchange of Letters between the President and Daniel P. Moynihan, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Submitting and Accepting his resignation
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Digitized from Box 20 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 2, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
EXCHANGE OF LETTERS
BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT
AND DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN, UNITED STATES
AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS
February 2, 1976
Dear Pat:
Your letter of January 31, expressing your desire to return to the teaching
profession, reached me today. I will, of course, accede to your wishes with
the deepest regret and reluctance.
In your letter you mentioned the years you have devoted to public service in
the last two decades. You did not mention the enormous impact that those years
have had.
In every task you have undertaken you have consistently elevated public discourse by
puncturing pretense and by eloquently advocating the cause of reason. Nowhere has
this been more evident than in your service at the United Nations, where you have
asserted our position forcefully, cogently and honestly. In doing so you have not
only reminded Americans that we take that institution seriously but also that we
take ourselves and the principles for which we stand seriously.
For this service, which most appropriately you have rendered on the occasion of
our 200th year, your fellow citizens owe you a debt that can never adequately be
repaid. On their behalf Betty and I offer our profound thanks to you and Elizabeth
for your service to the Nation.
With warmest personal regards,
Sincerely,
GERALD R. FORD
January 31, 1976
Dear Mr. President:
Today is the last of my leave from the University. I must return now, or must
give up for good my professorship there and, in effect, give up my profession as
well. The effort to persuade myself that this is a kind of personal fate that must
be accepted has not succeeded. I have spent almost five of the past eight years in
government, nine of the past fifteen, thirteen of the past nineteen. It is time to
return to teaching and such are the conditions of my tenure that I return now or
not at all.
It has been, for me, a high honor to serve as your Ambassador to India during
the latter part of my stay there, and more recently as your representative at the
United Nations. Indeed I was scarcely back from the former post before you asked
me to take up the new one. You have been unfailing in your encouragement and
support and I have with the fullest commitment sought to carry out your general
policies and vour specific instructions. For that opportunity I am permanently in
your debt, even if I must with a heavy and still divided heart, now depart your
service.
Most Respectfully,
DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN
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