Article: A Man of Ideas in the Arena: Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1927-2003.(Obituary)

Byline: Jonathan Alter

The voice was a dandified stutter-step of mumbled allusion and exaggerated enunciation. Yet if you listened hard enough, the erudite policy references and blustery historical detours cohered into a twinkly and often brilliant flash of insight. Like the finest professors and provocateurs, Pat Moynihan consistently frustrated the foolishly consistent. In midlife this made him a magnet for predictable resentments. But when he died last week, from an infection after his appendix burst, Moynihan was revered across party lines as a statesman in the mold of the Founders. Ideas have consequences, and this man of ideas was one of the most ...

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