Podcast appearances and mentions of urban affairs council

On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re talking President Nixon’s health care strategy with John Price. In addition to presenting two comprehensive health care proposals to Congress, Nixon signed the National Cancer Act (1971) and the Health Maintenance Organization Act (1973). Mr. Price served as Executive Director of the Urban Affairs Council and Special Assistant to the President in the Nixon White House. He is currently at work on a book about the Nixon White House domestic policy, and has lectured extensively on this subject at Oxford’s Rothermere Institute. Read the Transcript: https://bit.ly/2YHPdgA Interview by Jonathan Movroydis. Photo: President Nixon signs the National Cancer Act on December 23, 1971.(Richard Nixon Presidential Library)

Mr Price, who joined the staff of the Nixon administration in 1969, working in the Urban Affairs Council, discusses the relationship between Moynihan and Nixon during the Nixon presidency.

Mr Price, who joined the staff of the Nixon administration in 1969, working in the Urban Affairs Council, discusses the relationship between Moynihan and Nixon during the Nixon presidency.

In 1969, a conservative president made a liberal professor his urban affairs adviser in the White House. When Richard Nixon brought Daniel Patrick Moynihan onto the White House staff, the consequences for both would be tremendous, as recounted by  in this podcast based on his fascinating tale of those years,  (Brookings, 2014). Hess, a senior fellow emeritus at Brookings who was not only Moynihan’s deputy on the Urban Affairs Council but also a close friend, offers vivid anecdotes of what he witnessed, including: why “in a strange way Nixon fell in love with [Moynihan]”; a visit from actor Kirk Douglas; how Moynihan invented the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and the White House jazz concert led by Duke Ellington, the award’s first recipient. Also in the podcast, Governance Studies Fellow , in his "What's Happening in Congress" commentary, reviews the end of the 113th Congress and looks ahead to the next; and , deputy director of Foreign Policy at Brookings, talks about his new book, with David Steven, , which is about the "revolutionary changes in the supply, demand, and flow of energy" worldwide. Show Notes: • • , a series in which Hess recalls five key moments of his time working with Richard M. Nixon• The "" memo, Moynihan to Nixon (January 16, 1970) (pdf)• , story of the 1969 jazz all-star concert (Len Garment, The New York Times, Aug. 25, 2002)•    Subscribe to the Brookings Cafeteria on , listen on , and send feedback email to .