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Article: A Mensch.(The Last Word)(Daniel Patrick Moynihan)(Obituary)
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- Commonweal
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- March 12, 2004
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When former senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan died last March, the tributes were instant and profuse--yet they never managed to say all that there was to say. Moynihan was what the Founders had in mind when they envisioned an American political aristocracy. Like them, he was self-made. Like them, he was a thinker, a wordsmith, and a practical pol. Like them, he understood and relished "the spirit of public happiness": public speech, public policy, and fellow public men. He possessed a rare gift for a politician--a talent for friendship. Indeed his friendships crossed partisan lines. Short of friendship, he practiced an equally rare charity. He even had kind things to say ...
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Article: Please listen, Mr. Mayor. (Senator Daniel Patrick ...
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... ... well-insulated ears of New York's ruling liberal politicians ... Enter Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. At a meeting of the Association for a Better New York, with Mayor David Dinkins ... with memories of his own New York youth, in Hell's Kitchen ...
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