This kind of impressive cursus honorum is typically achieved by bland careerists with conventional opinions.
ambassador to the United Nations, where he defended the United States and denounced resolutions equating Zionism with racism, made him a celebrity and helped him to win one of the two U.S. ambassador to India (a post held in the Kennedy years by another eminent liberal intellectual, John Kenneth Galbraith). Still a Democrat, Moynihan joined the Nixon administration as an adviser, and served as U.S. Leaving the Johnson administration, he taught at Wesleyan and Harvard, and like many of the liberals who later became known as neoconservatives, he grew increasingly antagonistic toward the radical Left. In 1965, as an appointee in the Labor Department, he wrote the still controversial report “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” Being a member of New York governor Averell Harriman’s staff led to his marriage to a fellow staffer, Elizabeth Brennan, and to service in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. His education included a Fulbright scholarship to the London School of Economics (LSE). His service in the Navy during World War II allowed him to attend Tufts University, where he received two undergraduate degrees-one in naval science and one in sociology-and an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy as well as a PhD in history. During the Depression, the young Moynihan shined shoes and worked as a longshoreman before attending City College of New York, which charged no tuition. When his alcoholic father deserted the family, Moynihan as a boy moved to Manhattan with his mother, who tended bar in Hell’s Kitchen, then a heavily Irish American slum. Moynihan had come a long way from his birthplace in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Senate for four terms (1977 to 2001), until Chuck Schumer set a new record by winning a fifth term in 2022. Coming a Long Wayĭaniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003) shared the record with Jacob Javitz for representing New York in the U.S.
I regret not having asked him which of the four New Yorks he would have preferred to represent. Mother Jones permitted us to incorporate the maps from your superb “75 Stars” piece which, along with a few of your quotes, added immeasurably to our report.” New York, the state that Moynihan represented in the Senate, had been divided into four new states with a total of eight senators. In my introduction I address the emerging issue of Senate apportionment. “Dear Michael: Here in the 22nd edition of our annual study of the balance of payments between the states and the Federal government, I fear you have been implicated,” he wrote in the note that accompanied the report. In October 1998, my mail included a copy of “The Fisc,” Moynihan’s annual report to the people of New York, in which he meticulously documented how little the state received in federal subsidies compared to the federal taxes its residents paid. I sent a copy of the article to the Senator who had suggested the topic. Senate would be for populous states like New York, California, and Texas to divide into smaller successor states, each with two U.S. In an article entitled “75 Stars,” in the January/February 1998 issue of Mother Jones, I argued that the best way to reduce the malapportionment of the U.S. As my friend Walter Russell Mead pointed out to me, however, the Constitution does permit a single state to divide itself into two or more states, with the approval of its own people and Congress.
On looking into the subject, I discovered that the federal Constitution prevents two or more states from being consolidated into a single state against their will. “You should write an article saying we should consolidate all of those underpopulated western states into one, so that they only have two senators,” Moynihan told me that night, expressing a thought which has probably occurred to more than one East Coast politician. That particular evening at Bice, an upscale restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue that is now defunct, Moynihan explained what he meant by “talking trash with Al D’Amato.” The two New York senators, one Democrat and one Republican, had teamed up to battle a coalition of western states that did not want garbage from the East Coast buried inside their borders. My phone would ring and a secretary would tell me, “Please hold for Senator Moynihan.” Then the familiar voice in those familiar clipped tones would say something like the sentence above-or, to use an example from another occasion: “Michael, I’ve been listening to Donna Shalala testify all morning and I need a break. That is how dinners or lunches with Daniel Patrick Moynihan typically came about. “Lind,” the voice on the phone told me one day in the mid-1990s, “I’ve been talking trash all day with Al D’Amato.
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