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Sep 30, 2015 · Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s dazzling résumé is well-known: gunnery officer in the US Navy, Harvard professor of government, ambassador to India and the United Nations, assistant secretary of labor, urban policy adviser to President Nixon, and for four terms a Democratic senator from New York.
May 15, 2021 · Moynihan didn’t leave us many policy prescriptions, but he did bequeath a method: the gathering of statistics about family and poverty, accompanied by a cleareyed analysis of what they...
About the Episode. Discover the life and legacy of U.S. Senator and diplomat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. A bipartisan intellectual, he served under four presidents — both Democrat and Republican —...
- Joe Skinner
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A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 after serving as an adviser to President Richard Nixon, and as the United States' ambassador to India and to the United Nations. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Moynihan moved at a young age to New York City.
Nov 7, 2018 · One of these “big ideas” came in the form of the controversial Moynihan Report, a major focus of the documentary and a defining aspect of Moynihan’s legacy.
Jan 8, 2024 · In the mid-1960s, Moynihan left the Johnson administration and eventually became director of the Urban Studies Center at Harvard. While there, Moynihan became a major critic of Johnson’s signature domestic legislation, the Great Society, which sought to alleviate poverty at its cultural source.
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Mar 29, 2024 · In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan released his report on the Black family, titled "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action." Through structural and cultural analysis, the "Moynihan...
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