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Article: A Man of Ideas in the Arena: Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1927-2003.(Obituary)
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- Newsweek
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- April 7, 2003
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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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March 27, 2003 ;
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... ... the bench with Moynihan's recommendation. The New York Democrat and former ... interact." One of Moynihan's major contributions to Central New York was his work on ... 2002 DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN served as senator from New York for 24 years ...
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