Daniel Patrick Moynihan
United States Senator from New York
In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 2001
Preceded by	James L. Buckley
Succeeded by	Hillary Rodham Clinton
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
In office 1975 – 1976
President	Gerald R. Ford
Preceded by	John A. Scali
Succeeded by	William W. Scranton
Born	March 16, 1927 Tulsa, Oklahoma
Died	March 26, 2003 (aged 76) New York City
Nationality	American
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Liza Moynihan
Religion	Roman Catholic

Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was a United States Senator, Ambassador, and eminent sociologist. He was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected with the Democratic Party three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, and continuing through the administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford. See http://bioguide. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Politics Portal      The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the... NY redirects here. ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Buckley James Lane Buckley (born March 9, 1923 in New York City) was a United States Senator from the Conservative Party of New York State from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977. ... Hillary Rodham Clinton (born Hillary Diane Rodham on October 26, 1947) is the Biggest loser/retard these united states have seen from New York. ... United States Ambassador to the United Nations, full title, Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations (also known as the... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Nations. ... Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ... John A. Scali (US Ambassador to the United Nations) ... Scranton made the cover of Time in 1962 William Warren Scranton (born July 19, 1917) is a former U.S. Republican Party politician. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Oklahoma Coordinates: Country United States State Oklahoma Counties Tulsa, Osage, Wagoner, Rogers Government  - Mayor Kathy Taylor (D) Area  - City  186. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year (86th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... “Catholic Church” redirects here. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year (86th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ... This is a list of ambassadors from the United States. ... Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ... NY redirects here. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ... “LBJ” redirects here. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... this guy is awsome i played him in a school play he also has some pretty funky history Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ...

Education

Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was brought by his family to New York City at the age of six. There he was brought up in a poor neighborhood, shined shoes for money, and attended various public, private, and parochial schools before graduating from Harlem High School. He and his brother spent most of their childhood summers at his grandfather's farm in Bluffton, Indiana. He studied for one year at the City College of New York, which at that time provided free higher education, but then joined the U.S. Navy, receiving V-12 officer training at Tufts University. He served on active duty from 1944 to 1947, last serving as Gunnery Officer of the USS Quirinus. He went on to graduate from Tufts University, and received three graduate degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Afterwards, he studied as a Fulbright fellow at the London School of Economics. He was later given an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Tufts and has the distinction of being the only person to hold five degrees from Tufts. Nickname: Location in the state of Oklahoma Coordinates: Country United States State Oklahoma Counties Tulsa, Osage, Wagoner, Rogers Government  - Mayor Kathy Taylor (D) Area  - City  186. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... // Public education is education mandated for the children of the general public by the government, whether national, regional, or local, provided by an institution of civil government, and paid for, in whole or in part, by taxes. ... A parochial school (or faith school) is a type of private school which engages in religious education in addition to conventional education. ... Bluffton is a city located in Wells County, Indiana. ... The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City) is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ... The University of Cambridge is an institute of higher learning. ... The V-12 Navy College Training Program was designed to supplement the force of commissioned officers in the United States Navy during World War II. Between July 1, 1943 and June 30, 1946, over 125,000 men were enrolled in the V-12 program in 131 colleges and universities in... Tufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts, suburbs of Boston. ... USS Quirinus (ARL-39), originally LST–1151, was an Achelous class ship of the United States Navy laid down 3 March 1945 by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. ... Tufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts, suburbs of Boston. ... “M.S.” redirects here. ... The Cabot Intercultural Center of The Fletcher School at Tufts University The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, also called simply The Fletcher School, is the oldest graduate school of international relations in the United States. ... The Fulbright Program is program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a specialist constituent college of the University of London. ...

Public service

Moynihan was a member of Averell Harriman's New York gubernatorial campaign in 1954 and thereafter served 4 years on the Governor's staff, in positions including acting secretary to the Governor. He was a Kennedy delegate at the 1960 Democratic National Convention. William Averell Harriman William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was a Governor of New York. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ... The 1960 Democratic National Convention nominated John F. Kennedy for President and Lyndon B. Johnson for Vice President. ...

Assistant Secretary of Labor; controversy over the War on Poverty

Moynihan was an Assistant Secretary of Labor for policy in the Kennedy administration and in the early part of the Johnson administration. In that capacity, he did not have operational responsibilities, allowing him to devote all of his time to trying to formulate national policy for what would become the War on Poverty. He had a small staff including Paul Barton, Ellen Broderick, and Ralph Nader (who at 29 years of age, hitchhiked to Washington, D.C. and got a job working for Moynihan in 1963). The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Paul Thomas Barton (born October 9, 1935, Wellington) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1961 to 1963. ... Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934), is an American attorney and political activist Issues he has promoted include consumer rights, feminism, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government. ...

They took inspiration from the book Slavery written by Stanley Elkins. Elkins essentially contended that slavery had made American blacks dependent on the dominant society, and that that dependence still existed a century later, supporting a view that the government must go beyond simply ensuring that members of minority races have the same rights as everyone else, and offering minority members benefits that others did not get on the grounds that those benefits were necessary to counteract that lingering effects of past actions. Stanley M. Elkins is As of 2004 the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor Emeritus of history at Smith College. ...

Moynihan found data at the Labor Department that showed that even as fewer people were unemployed, more people were joining the welfare rolls — these recipients were families with children, but only one parent (almost invariably the mother). The laws at that time permitted such families to receive welfare payments in certain parts of the United States. Welfare is financial assistance paid by taxpayers to groups of people who are unable to support themselves, and determined to be able to function more effectively with financial assistance. ...

Moynihan's report was seen by people on the left as "Blaming the Victim", a slogan coined by William Ryan. He was also seen as propagating the views of racists, because much of the press coverage of his reports focused on the discussion of children being born out of wedlock. Despite Moynihan's warnings, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program had the "Man out of the house rule." Critics said that the nation was paying poor women to throw their husbands out of the house. Moynihan supported Richard Nixon's idea of a Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI). Daniel Patrick Moynihan had significant discussions concerning a Basic Income Guarantee with Russell B. Long and Louis O. Kelso. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was the name of a federal assistance program in effect from August 14, 1935 to June 30, 1997, which was administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... A guaranteed minimum income is a proposed system of income redistribution that would give each citizen a certain sum of money independent of whether they work or not. ... A guaranteed minimum income is a proposed system of income redistribution that would give each citizen a certain sum of money independent of whether they work or not. ... Russell Billiu Long Russell Billiu Long (November 3, 1918 – May 9, 2003) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate as a Democrat from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. ... Louis O. Kelso (1913-1991) was a lawyer and economic thinker who sought to find a way to preserve capitalism from the competition of communism as an alternative within the context of the early Cold War. ...

Local New York City and academic career

By 1964, Moynihan was supporting Robert F. Kennedy. For this reason he was not favored by then president Johnson. He left the Johnson administration in 1965. He ran for but did not win the presidency of the New York City Council. He then became an academic, becoming director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but continued to write about the problems of the poor in the cities of the Northeastern part of the United States. With turmoil and riots in the United States he wrote that the next administration would have to be able to unite the nation again. Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. ... New York City Hall The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of the City of New York. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Regional definitions vary The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. ... Categories: Stub | Riots ...

Nixon Administration

Connecting with President-elect Richard Nixon in 1968, he joined Nixon's White House Staff as an urban affairs adviser. He was very influential at that time, as one of the few people in Nixon's inner circle who had done academic research related to social policies. A President-elect is a candidate who has officially been elected President, but who has not yet acceded to his Office, as it is still occupied by the out-going President. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... The Executive Office of the President (EOP or sometimes EXOP) consists of the immediate staff of the President of the United States, as well as multiple levels of support staff reporting to the President. ...

He once wrote in a memo to President Nixon that "the issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect". He argued that Nixon's conservative tactics were playing into the hands of the radicals, but he regretted that he was misinterpreted as advocating that the government should neglect minorities. Benign neglect, also called salutary neglect, is a term that has been used in retrospect to describe many historical actions, including Britains hands-off attitude toward many of its colonies. ...

U.N. Ambassador

He later served as the ambassador to India from 1973 to 1975, and as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, serving a rotation as President of the United Nations Security Council in 1976. United States Ambasadors to the United Nations, full title, Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations (also known as the... The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... “UNSC” redirects here. ...

Perhaps the most controversial action of Moynihan's career was his response, as ambassador to the UN, to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. The Ford administration considered Indonesia, then under a military dictatorship, a key ally against communism. Moynihan ensured that the UN Security Council took no action against this annexation of a small country by a larger one which would involve massacres that killed over 200,000 Timorese. As he put it in his memoirs: this guy is awsome i played him in a school play he also has some pretty funky history Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ... Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production. ...

"The United States wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The Department of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success." (A Dangerous Place, Little Brown, 1980, p. 247) Later, he admitted that he had defended a "shameless" Cold War policy toward East Timor.^{[citation needed]}

Career in the Senate

In 1976, Moynihan was elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of New York, defeating U.S. Representative Bella Abzug in the Democratic primary, and Conservative Party incumbent James L. Buckley in the general election. Bella Abzug Bella Savitsky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998) was a well-known Jewish American political figure and a leader of the womens movement. ... The Conservative Party of New York is a minor political party active only in New York State. ... James Buckley James Lane Buckley (born March 9, 1923 in New York City) was a United States Senator from the Conservative Party of New York State from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977. ...

While considered by many to be a liberal, Moynihan did break with the orthodox positions of his party on numerous occasions. He strongly opposed President Clinton's proposal to expand health care coverage to all Americans. Seeking to focus the debate on health insurance and the financing of health care costs, Moynihan garnered controversy by stating that "there is no health care crisis in this country."

In the mid-1990s, Moynihan was one of the few liberal Democrats to support the controversial ban on the procedure known as partial-birth abortion. He said of the procedure: "I think this is just too close to infanticide. A child has been born and it has exited the uterus. What on Earth is this procedure?" Earlier in his career in the Senate, Moynihan had expressed his annoyance with the adamantly pro-choice interest groups petitioning him and others on the issue. He complained to them saying, "you women are ruining the Democratic Party with your insistence on abortion."^[1] Partial-birth abortion (PBA) is a non-medical term used to refer to some late-term abortion procedures. ...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan had a theory about government called the "professionalization of reform" by which the government bureaucracy thinks up problems for government to solve rather than simply responding to the problems identified by others.

Public speaker

Moynihan was a popular public speaker with a distinctly patrician style. He had some peculiar mannerisms of speech, somewhat akin to William F. Buckley, Jr. in the form of slight stuttering and drawn-out vowels for emphasis. They both paraphrased the final line of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in their book titles. This article is about the social and political class in ancient Rome. ... William Francis Buckley Jr. ... Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ... Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was written in 1923 by Robert Frost, in his New Hampshire volume. ...

Commission on Government Secrecy

Main article: Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy

In the post-Cold War era, the 103rd Congress enacted legislation directing an inquiry into the uses of government secrecy. Moynihan chaired the Commission. The Committee studied and made recommendations on the "culture of secrecy" that pervaded the United States government and its intelligence community for 80 years, beginning with the Espionage Act of 1917, and made recommendations on the statutory regulation of classified information. Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, also called the Moynihan Secrecy Commission, was a bipartisan commission in the United States created under Title IX of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (P.L. 103-236) to conduct an investigation into all matters in any... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... The Espionage Act of 1917 was a United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I, on June 15, 1917, which made it a crime for a person to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States...

The Committee's findings and recommendations were presented to the President in 1997. As part of the effort, Moynihan secured release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation of its classified Venona file. This file documents the FBI's joint counterintelligence investigation, with the United States Signals Intelligence Service, into Soviet espionage within the United States. Much of the information had been collected and classified as secret information for over fifty years. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), serving as both a federal criminal investigative body and a domestic intelligence agency. ... Counterintelligence or counter-espionage is the act of seeking and indentifying espionage activities. ... Arlington Hall Arlington Hall was the headquarters of the US Armys Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) cryptography effort during World War II. It was named for its location in Arlington Hall Station, Arlington, Virginia—a private girls school which was commandeered during the War. ...

After release of the information, Moynihan authored Secrecy: The American Experience where he discussed the impact government secrecy has had on the domestic politics of America for the past half century, and how myths and suspicion created an unnecessary partisan chasm.

Academe and authorship

In addition to his distinguished career as a politician and diplomat, Moynihan was a sociologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and Syracuse University. He authored some 19 books, including Beyond the Melting Pot, an influential study of American ethnicity which he co-authored with Nathan Glazer in 1963, followed by The Negro Family: The Case for National Action otherwise known as the Moynihan Report in 1965, The Politics of a Guaranteed Income (1973), Family and Nation (1986), Came the Revolution (1988), On the Law of Nations (1990), and Secrecy (1998). Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Wesleyan University, founded in 1831, is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut. ... Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. ... Nathan Glazer Nathan Glazer (b. ... The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, which later became known as the Moynihan Report after its author Democrat Senator from New York Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is a controversial report released in 1965. ...

Death & posthumous honors

In 2003, Moynihan died at the age of 76 after complications suffered from an emergency appendectomy about a month earlier. He was survived by his wife of 39 years, Elizabeth Brennan Moynihan, three grown children, Timothy Patrick Moynihan, Maura Russell Moynihan, and John McCloskey Moynihan, and two grandchildren, Michael Patrick and Zora Olea. An appendicectomy (or appendectomy) is the surgical removal of the vermiform appendix. ...

In 2004, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, announced plans to replace Penn Station as the city's railroad hub. Built a block away within the historic landmark James A. Farley Post Office Building, the new station would be named for Moynihan. Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Exterior view circa 1911. ...

In 2005, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs renamed their Global Affairs Institute to the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is a leading public policy school in the United States, and a part of Syracuse University. ...

Quotes

"To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart." -- Speaking after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 1963

"There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos... And it is richly deserved." -- "Family and Nation", 1965

"No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty."-- "The Politics of a Guaranteed Income", 1973

"Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is." --"Secrecy: The American Experience", 1998

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ...

Selected books

It was sometimes joked of the scholarly Moynihan that he had written more books than most of his colleagues had read.

• Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty (1969) ISBN 0029220009
• Violent Crimes (1970) ISBN 0807660531
• Coping: Essays on the Practice of Government (1973) ISBN 0394483243
• The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan (1973) ISBN 0394463544.
• Business and Society in Change (1975) ISBN 0884390022
• A Dangerous Place (1978) ISBN 0316586994
• Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 1980 (1980) ISBN 1565545168
• Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures (1986) ISBN 0156301407
• On the Law of Nations (1990) ISBN 0674635760
• Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics (1994) ISBN 0198279469
• Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy (1996) ISBN 0674574419
• Secrecy: The American Experience (1998) ISBN 0300080794
• Future of the Family (2003) ISBN 0871546280

References

This article draws from the book "The Promised Land" by Nicholas Lemann, Bill Clinton's statements when awarding Moynihan the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000, and statements by senators on the occasion of his death in 2003, as well as the sources noted below. Nicholas Lemann graduated from Harvard University in 1976. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States (the other award which is considered its equivalent is the Congressional Gold Medal, which is bestowed by an... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1. ^ Human Life Review, Summer 2003, page 13.

See also

• List of U.S. political appointments that crossed party lines
• Benign neglect

This is an incomplete list of Political appointees in the United States Government whose party was different from that of the President who made the appointment. ... Benign neglect, also called salutary neglect, is a term that has been used in retrospect to describe many historical actions, including Britains hands-off attitude toward many of its colonies. ...

External links

• AP obituary
• Senator Moynihan's congressional biography
• Moynihan Commission Report
• George Will Tribute Column
• Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

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