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Article: The incomparable Daniel Patrick.(New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 2, 1999
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THE scholar warms almost instantly to his theme: "We have been so stable, apart from the Civil War, that we think it natural. Britain and the US are the only countries since 1800 not to have had their form of government changed by violence. You take stability as a given, when in fact it's a rarity." In other words, let the Senate be wary when it sets about the trial of Bill Clinton.
It is a good point, seldom heard in the impeachment blather that has filled America's airwaves for the past year. But the scholar is Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the senior Democratic senator for New York, and perhaps his voice, his manner, his lateral leaps of creative reasoning are a ...