the family assistance plan fails which is what both richard nixon and daniel patrick moynahan really wanted to get put through in some form in congress. when that fames, arthur byrnes goes off to the fed, is that where he was -- >> mm-hmm. >> goes off to the federal reserve opinion he was in the white house as a placeholder. daniel patrick moynahan goes back to his tenured position at harvard so there was a vacuum then in the white house and the tactician that the president was very comfortable with, john ehrlichman was there to fill that vacuum in part. >> i think is the first the president trusted ehrlichman implicitly. the second is that ehrlicmman had refined organizational intelligence. that was a quality which wasn't -- that was a quality which was valuable to nixon. and nixon used it. >> right. yes, in the back. >> i have two questions. first one, dean, easy one for you. was nixon a racist? and, if so, why or why not? and the second question to the whole panel is, in nixon's economic policy, was he economics 101 or did he have a post doc? where and how much did he really know

for charles murray and senator daniel patrick moynahan's on the family.e you've done from within. >> there's a lot of dysfunction that i will say quite frankly, are tropes of that culture of poverty. teenage pregnancy, infidelity and missing fathers and all of the things -- >> the sta tastistics in this country 1 in 6 living in near poverty. i think there is a moment to see anew. >> unfortunately, it's a fact that 1 in 3 black children are growing up in poverty. okay 33% of my people? these kids are growing up in poverty? let's talk about that. let's put that on stage. let's put people in a room and be affected by seeing, you know, these people go through the journey. >> you did so much research in "hurt village" and when you sat down to write that play, it's like some privileged white new york feeder goer the only thing they will know about that is what they see in your play. what do you owe them that is the frustrating part, i think, i'm dealing with because, okay, we are at signature theater and they have a subscriber base and most of those subscribers