Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 1927-2003

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1927-03-16
Death 2003-03-26
Birth 1927
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, also Pat Moynihan, (born March 16, 1927, Tulsa, Oklahoma – died March 26, 2003, Washington, D.C.), American politician, sociologist, and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate and served as an adviser to Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon.

Moynihan moved at a young age to New York City. Following a stint in the navy, he earned a Ph.D. in history from Tufts University. He worked on the staff of New York Governor W. Averell Harriman before joining President John F. Kennedy's administration in 1961. He served as an Assistant Secretary of Labor under Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, devoting much of his time to the War on Poverty. In 1965, he published the controversial Moynihan Report. Moynihan left the Johnson administration in 1965 and became a professor at Harvard University.

In 1969, he accepted Nixon's offer to serve as an Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and he was elevated to the position of Counselor to the President later that year. He left the administration at the end of 1970, and accepted appointment as United States Ambassador to India in 1973. He accepted President Gerald Ford's appointment to the position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 1975, holding that position until early 1976; later that year he won election to the Senate.

Moynihan represented New York in the Senate from 1977 to 2001. He served as Chairman of the Senate Environment Committee from 1992 to 1993 and as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1993 to 1995. He also led the Moynihan Secrecy Commission, which studied the regulation of classified information. He emerged as a strong critic of President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy and opposed President Bill Clinton's health care plan. He frequently broke with liberal positions, but opposed welfare reform in the 1990s. He also voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Congressional authorization for the Gulf War. He is tied with Jacob K. Javits as the longest-serving Senator from the state of New York.

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  • Advertising, political
  • Education
  • Education
  • African American families
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • AIDS (Disease)
  • Air
  • Ammunition
  • Arms transfers
  • Art museums
  • Automobiles
  • Banks and banking
  • Budget
  • Busing for school integration
  • Busing for school integration
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  • Diplomatic and consular service, American
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  • Senators, U.S. Congress

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  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
  • Puerto Rico (as recorded)
  • Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • New York (State) (as recorded)
  • New York (State) (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • India (as recorded)
  • Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) (as recorded)
  • Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • Washington (D.C.) (as recorded)
  • Federal Triangle (Washington, D.C.) (as recorded)
  • Israel (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Fire Island National Seashore (N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • New York (N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • Governors Island (New York County, N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • Bosnia and Hercegovina (as recorded)
  • Iraq (as recorded)
  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
  • Women's Rights National Historical Park (N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • Middle East (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Onondaga Lake (N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • Persian Gulf (as recorded)
  • Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.) (as recorded)
  • Iran (as recorded)
  • India (as recorded)
  • Ireland (as recorded)
  • Saudi Arabia (as recorded)
  • Yugoslavia (as recorded)
  • Central America (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • New York (State) (as recorded)

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