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  Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Moynihan's appendix ruptured March 10 and he was taken to Washington Hospital Center for an emergency appendectomy.
Moynihan worked for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign and went to work for the Labor Department in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, becoming assistant secretary for policy planning and research before leaving in 1965.
Moynihan is survived by his wife of 47 years, Elizabeth Brennan Moynihan; three children, Timothy Patrick, Maura Russell, and John McCloskey Moynihan; and two grandchildren.
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 OxBlog
OxBlog is the off-the-cuff political commentary of David Adesnik, Patrick Belton, Patrick Porter and Taylor Owen, all of whom are, or were, graduate students at Oxford.
Patrick Belton, a debonair son of Eire with a passion for single malts, is a doctoral candidate in international relations at Oxford.
Patrick Porter, a recently-married Australian, is about to receive his doctorate in history from Oxford.
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  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, United States Navy, United States Senator
Moynihan was accused of racism and "blaming the victim," and soon left the administration to accept an academic post at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a dockworker and bartender who rose from poverty to become a four-term senator from New York and the leading scholar-politician of his time, died yesterday in Washington.
Moynihan caused his biggest stir with a 1965 report that argued illegitimate births and fatherless homes were a cause of the crime and poverty plaguing fls.
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  Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Obituaries | News | Telegraph
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former senator for New York who has died aged 76, was the archetype of the north-eastern, liberal Democrat, and also of the American ideal of self-improvement.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was born on March 16 1927 at Tulsa, Oklahoma, the eldest child of John Henry Moynihan, a newspaperman who moved his family to New York to take up a job as a copywriter with the film producers RKO when young Pat was six months old.
Meanwhile, Moynihan continued his academic career at Syracuse University, where he began to specialise in welfare provision and transport issues; two causes to which he was to address himself thereafter.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/28/db2801.xml&page=1   (577 words)

  
  Harvard Gazette: Daniel Patrick Moynihan dies at 76
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a former Harvard professor and longtime public servant, died March 26 in Washington at age 76.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a former Harvard professor of government and a lifelong public servant, died March 26 at age 76.
Moynihan first came to Harvard in 1966 as director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard and MIT and professor of education and urban politics at the Graduate School of Education.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/daily/0303/26-moynihan.html   (569 words)

  
 Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (March 16, 1927 - March 26, 2003) was four-term U.S. Senator, administration official, and academic.
In addition to his distinguished career as a politician and diplomat, Moynihan was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and Syracuse University.
Moynihan died at the age of 76 after complications suffered from an emergency appendectomy about a month earlier.
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 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was brought by his family to New York City at the age of six.
Moynihan was a member of Averell Harriman's New York gubernatorial campaign in 1954 and thereafter served 4 years on the Governor's staff, in positions including acting secretary to the Governor.
Moynihan was an Assistant Secretary of Labor for policy in the Kennedy administration and in the early part of the Johnson administration.
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 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Harvard professor and four-term United States senator from New York who brought a scholar's eye for data to politics and a politician's sense of the real world to academia, died yesterday at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. He was 76.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Okla., on March 16, 1927, the son of an itinerant, hard-drinking newspaperman who moved the family to New York later that year to take a job writing advertising copy.
Moynihan first came to Harvard in 1966 as director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard and MIT and as a professor of government, serving in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of the Kennedy School of Government.
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 CNN.com - Former Sen. Moynihan dies - Mar. 27, 2003
Moynihan's appendix ruptured March 10 and he was taken to Washington Hospital Center for an emergency appendectomy.
Moynihan worked for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign and went to work for the Labor Department in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, becoming assistant secretary for policy planning and research before leaving in 1965.
Moynihan is survived by his wife of 47 years, Elizabeth Brennan Moynihan; three children, Timothy Patrick, Maura Russell, and John McCloskey Moynihan; and two grandchildren.
www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/26/moynihan/index.html   (686 words)

  
 Andrew Karmen - "Defining Deviancy Down": How Senator Moynihan's Misleading Phrase About Criminal Justice Is Rapidly ...
Moynihan quotes from his own article in the magazine "America" (1965), in which he predicted that a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in "broken families" dominated by women is asking for chaos.
Moynihan's emphasis on the tendency toward downward redefinitions obviously has some basis in truth (Although Moynihan talks of a generation, in his discussions of mental patients and single mothers, he refers to conditions that prevailed in the mid 1960s).
Moynihan chose to direct all his attention toward the downward drift of accepting as "normal" behavior that used to be considered abnormal.
www.albany.edu /scj/jcjpc/vol2is5/deviancy.html   (3964 words)

  
 AIArchitect, April 7, 2003 - The Legacy of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador to India, Harvard professor, and four-term U.S. Senator from New York, died March 26 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 76.
Last December, when the GSA honored Moynihan for the influence of his thought on federal architecture for the past 40 years, the AIA was proud to pay him homage.
Moynihan, according to accounts, liked to quote Thomas Jefferson as saying “Design activity and political thought are indivisible.” Our capital city, and our profession, have been built on Jefferson’s words and reinforced by those of Moynihan.
www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek03/tw0404/0404moynihan.htm   (648 words)

  
 SacObserver.com [GOVERNMENT] The Legacy Of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the unflappable former Senator from New York, was a scholar and an individual with a marvelous bent toward public service: he served in the administration of two Democratic presidents and two Republican presidents.
Moynihan's commitment to progressive public policies can be seen in such things as the major role he played in ensuring that the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provided more adequate income to elderly persons who had been domestics or farmers when those job categories weren't covered by the 1935 Social Security Act.
Furthermore, Moynihan's efforts were crucial to the passage of the innovative Family Support Act in 1988; and he was an early and vigorous critic of President Clinton's support for the so-called welfare reform act of 1996.
www.sacobserver.com /government/commentary/050503/daniel_patrick_moynihan.shtml   (835 words)

  
 Tribute to Daniel Patrick Moynihan
But Pat Moynihan was not that kind of man. He was always willing to work with Senators, no matter where they were from or what their views were, to try to do the right thing.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was the senior United States Senator from New York.
Moynihan is a former Chairman of the Board of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
www.fas.org /sgp/congress/2003/s032603.html   (5450 words)

  
 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Its conclusion that African-American urban poverty could be traced in part to a breakdown of family structure was at the time much criticized by civil-rights activists but is now generally regarded as an unusually prescient analysis.
Although Moynihan’s policy declarations in the 1960s and early 70s were among the most significant formulations of what was called “neoliberalism” or “neoconservatism,” in the Senate he was a consistent critic of the Reagan and Bush administrations, which enjoyed the support of many neoconservatives, and a strong supporter of Democratic presidents Carter and Clinton.
Moynihan retired from the Senate in 2001; subsequently, he served on the faculty of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse Univ. His many books include Family and Nation (1986), Came the Revolution (1988), On the Law of Nations (1990), and Secrecy (1998).
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 Tufts Journal: People: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The nation lost a political giant on March 26, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan—a four-term senator from New York, ambassador and senior official in four presidential administrations—died of complications from a ruptured appendix.
Moynihan, who earned three degrees from Tufts University, underwent an emergency appendectomy on March 11 and developed an infection.
Moynihan announced in 1999 that he would not seek a fifth term.
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 Antle: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, R.I.P.
Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) was a rarity: a true intellectual and policy wonk (as opposed to policy wonk poseur) who succeeded in the rough-and-tumble world of electoral politics, in New York of all places.
At the center of Pat Moynihan’s storied career was a remarkable paradox: As a scholar and advisor to every president from Kennedy to Ford, he was an innovative thinker who was frequently dubious about the claims and excesses of modern liberalism.
It was Moynihan, in a book entitled Beyond the Melting Pot coauthored with Nathan Glazer, who pointed out the difficulties of assimilating immigrant groups– two years before the 1965 immigration reform act that increased immigration without any corresponding effort to increase our capacity for assimilation.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan underscores rising rates of single mothers and illegitimacy, divorce and separation, unemployment and welfare dependency among fls.
Moynihan says that the result of these trends is that almost 25% of fl families are headed by women, nearly double the rate for white families.
Moynihan says that a concerted national effort is needed to strengthen the fl family so that fls can take advantage of new opportunities.
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 In Memory of...: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
For this Moynihan was attacked for "blaming the victim." He was furiously denounced in the press and the academy.
On the 10th day of the 1980s Moynihan predicted that "the defining event of the decade might well be the breakup of the Soviet empire." Only Moynihan and Ronald Reagan saw it coming.
Moynihan had become convinced that Social Security, created as a program to guarantee income, should be expanded to enable people to accumulate wealth.
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 Daniel Patrick Moynihan - Encyclopedia.com
Remarks at a fundraiser for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in New York City.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. senator and scholar OBITUARY
Former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan dies at 76.
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 Race Matters - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Moynihan served in the Senate from 1977 to 2001.
Moynihan's fascination with global affairs never waned, and he continued to speak and write about world events, at one point foretelling the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 1988 Moynihan, long one of the nation's foremost authorities on work and family, helped bring together conservatives and liberals to enact the Family Support Act, a major revision of the nation's welfare laws.
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 Psychology mourns the death of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
America lost an influential policy scholar when Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan died on March 26 at the age of 76.
Moynihan also served as an adviser to four consecutive presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Gerald Ford, leaving his stamp on labor, urban affairs and other domestic policy.
From the start of his service in the U.S. Senate, Moynihan was committed to his principles and did not mince words when he believed politics--whether liberal or conservative--was overriding substance.
www.apa.org /monitor/may03/moynihan.html   (379 words)

  
 Orthodox Union to Honor Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan - OUPR
New York’s Senior Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan will be the guest of honor at the Orthodox Union’s Institute for Public Affairs Dinner to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on Columbus Day, Monday, October 11, 1999.
Senator Moynihan’s friendship with the Orthodox Union dates back to 1963 when he worked with the Union’s leadership while advising President John F. Kennedy on the question of government aid to non public schools.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the only person in American history to have served in the cabinet or sub-cabinet of four consecutive presidents.
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 The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Summer 2005
Moynihan, then assistant secretary of labor and one of a new class of government social scientists, was among the worriers, as he puzzled over his charts.
Moynihan argued that the rise in single-mother families was not due to a lack of jobs but rather to a destructive vein in ghetto culture that could be traced back to slavery and Jim Crow discrimination.
Implicit in Moynihan’s analysis was that marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children’s prospects.
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 IPA: OU Mourns the Passing of Daniel Patrick Moynihan; “An Unparalleled Friend to our Community”   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Upon his retirement from the Senate, we were privileged to honor Senator Moynihan at a dinner for the Union’s Institute for Public Affairs (but one of scores of Orthodox Union events in which Sen. Moynihan participated).
In our collective communal memories, the name Daniel Patrick Moynihan will always be synonymous with his successful sixteen-year effort to repeal the odious U.N. General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism and his ongoing struggle to have the United States acknowledge Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel.
Moynihan, and his remarkable wife Elizabeth, was a valued ally to the Orthodox Jewish community.
www.ou.org /public_affairs/article/ou_mourns_the_passing_of_daniel_patrick_moynihan_an_unparalleled_friend_to_   (404 words)

  
 Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Retrospective
Moynihan had a reputation as an intellectual force who had influenced federal policymakers, but he had never held elected office at the time of his unsuccessful run for City Council President.
Moynihan, who had said at one point that it would be "dishonorable" for him to run for office, bowed to pressure from supporters to enter the Senate race.
Moynihan resigned as vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in protest over the failure of the C.I.A. to inform the committee about the scope of United States involvement in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors.
partners.nytimes.com /books/00/08/13/specials/moynihan.html   (1385 words)

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