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Article: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (born 1927), United States senator from New York, was a politician and scholar whose career marked him as one of America's most influential public figures in the second half of the 20th century.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an academician, presidential adviser, diplomat, legislator, and author. He was renowned for his willingness to confront diverse issues ranging from race to social security to disarmament to international order. Yet the enigma of "Pat" Moynihan is that, despite his varied careers and numerous achievements, he never seemed identified with any one of them. He could not exclusively be called scholar, although he wrote 16 ...
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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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