Benign neglect was a policy proposed in 1969 by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was at the time on Nixon`s White House Staff as an urban affairs adviser. While serving in this capacity, he sent the President a memo suggesting, `The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of `benign neglect.` The subject has been too ...
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Refers to doing nothing about a problem, in the hope that it will not be serious or will be solved by others. Said to be U.S. policy toward its balance of payments deficit in the late 1960s, based on other countries' need for dollar reserves.
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