President Ford today formally nominated former Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton for appointment as successor to Daniel P. Moynihan as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. His nomination is subject to Senate confirmation where no serious opposition is foreseen. Moynihan leaves the post at the end of this month to return to Harvard University.
Scranton has “a big job to do” in carrying out his policy of “standing up for the United States against those unfair attacks,’ in the UN, Ford said, in announcing Scranton’s nomination. The U.S., he said, is “stronger” today in the UN and has “made great progress” in it since Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s address to the General Assembly. He also said Kissinger had been trying to get Scranton to accept “a responsible position” in the Administration for seven years.
It was about seven years ago that Scranton returned from a visit to the Middle East as President Nixon’s special representative and recommended to Nixon shortly after Nixon’s first election that the U.S should pursue a “more even-handed” policy in the Mideast.
Nixon did not accept the recommendation of “even handedness” in executing his foreign policy during his first administration but the idea expressed by Scranton has since become virtually the heart of American policy.
Scranton said today that “I’m a Pat Moynihan fan and delighted in the way he handled it”–the UN post–since his appointment last June. Scranton also said that “primarily because of the activity” of Ford and Kissinger the U.S. standing is on the “upbend” in the United Nations. Observers had no opportunity to question him or the President on what tangible successes the U.S. has gained in the UN during the past year.
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