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Pat Moynihan, 1927-2003. (Scan).(Brief Article)
We mourn the passing of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the great statesmen of our age, a fascinating and sometimes maddening man who combined the heart of a working-class regular with the head of a reformist intellectual.
Has there been a recent American politician as complex and contradictory as Pat Moynihan? He was Irish Catholic yet a foppish Anglophile. Certainly he was the only Harvard social scientist who could be greeted with backslapping beer-buying bonhomie in a Buffalo bar. The product of a broken home, Moynihan was courageous and far-sighted in analyzing the disastrous consequences of illegitimacy and the breakdown of the two-parent family.
A New Deal Democrat who seldom voted against a government appropriation, Moynihan was also a gimlet-eyed critic of the welfare state. He believed in international law, magnificent public architecture, and labor unions. He coined memorable phrases ("defining ...
- Pat Moynihan 1927 - 2003.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service March 27, 2003 700+ words
...picture. Moynihan entered the New York spotlight in 1975, when he...the General Post Office in New York, when he announced that one...minds. And to dream big. Pat Moynihan did both. He served New York with passion and with grace...
- Neo Con.(Pat Moynihan, tease and heartbreaker)
- Magazine article from: National Review NORDLINGER, JAY February 8, 1999 700+ words
Pat Moynihan, tease and heartbreaker...final term as senator from New York-has been doing this for...wasted his talents." One New York journalist, who for decades...Christmas, he informed the New York Times that, in conducting...
- Slumlord; Pat Moynihan has done some great things - but betraying the poverty...
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Lemann, Nicholas May 1, 1991 700+ words
...the fall of 1964, he had campaigned for Robert Kennedy in New York, and Lyndon Johnson, who hated Kennedy, had become predictably...Moynihan was contemplating a run for the presidency of the New York City Council in the fall of 1965; being known as the author...
- The senate's 'conscience': the transportation world was transformed forever by...
- Magazine article from: Traffic World Schulz, John D. April 7, 2003 700+ words
...you may have Pat Moynihan to thank for that...better," fellow New York Sen. Charles Schumer...s Kitchen in New York City. Whether...four presidents, Pat Moynihan never really ever...tumble part of New York City. "I really...
- Right data.(New York State is rich in income and also in AFDC and Medicaid...
- Magazine article from: National Review Rubenstein, Ed January 27, 1997 700+ words
...Gingrich characterized New York as a "culture of waste...send a check." But in Pat Moynihan's view, the Speaker...spent in the state. New York State sent $17.7 billion...this is nothing new. New York has been a donor state...
- Modernize America while rescuing New York. (the Political Economist).
- Magazine article from: The American Enterprise Zinsmeister, Karl January 1, 2003 700+ words
...11 terror attacks. New York City in particular was...Americans: After all, New York was damaged in an act...up a commission under Pat Moynihan and the current CEO of...mobilizes Republicans. New York's urban financial crunch...
- Plenty of nothing in New York: Governor Pataki's effective Gary Cooper...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Newfield, Jack November 11, 2002 700+ words
...heard. For example, New York State has a gargantuan...has been documented in a New York Times series that also...Senate seat vacated by Pat Moynihan. So the historical winds...Governor Hugh Carey, former New York Mayor Ed Koch and Albany...
- Senator Pothole v. Mr. Liberal. (US Senate race in New York State between...
- Magazine article from: National Review Brookhiser, Richard November 2, 1992 700+ words
NEW YORK IN THE New York papers, the Senate race between Republican...has played as if it were the latest New York Story, gritty as a sex crime or a race...on immigration policy, you went to Pat Moynihan's office. If you wanted a green card...
- Vertiginous in New York: Third, fourth, fifth and sixth parties may decide next...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Will, George F. July 5, 1999 700+ words
...cultural indicator, and New York politics, with enough...seat of retiring Sen. Pat Moynihan. Why would she run...meet Mike Long, head of New York's Conservative Party...of George W. Bush in New York and Giuliani is a few...
- Commentary: Schumer runs low-profile race in New York.
- Magazine article from: Long Island Business News October 29, 2004 700+ words
...to a Republican president. In New York, however, there's another statewide...perhaps the most effective senator New York has ever had, in a very hotly...than the million votes that Sen. Pat Moynihan won by in 1988. I don't believe...
Source: HighBeam Research, Pat Moynihan, 1927-2003. (Scan).(Brief Article)