Moynihan in His Own Words
He sniffed at Hillary Rodham Clinton’s smugness, denounced Spiro T. Agnew as a demagogue, opposed Pamela Harriman’s application to a prestigious Manhattan club and called the Peace Corps elitist. He presciently raised the specter of global warming, advocated for safer cars and championed equal rights and recognition for women, especially his wife.
He huffed about the defense establishment that produced over-reaching military advice about Vietnam, fretted about making enough money, objected to being branded a neoconservative, never recovered from being misunderstood or misrepresented for suggesting that the rhetoric of race would benefit from “benign neglect” and, after Watergate, expressed profound misgivings about having gone to work for President Richard M. Nixon.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, adviser to three presidents, a four-term United States senator from New York and a prolific author, posthumously reveals his insights into personalities and public policy in thousands of pages of intimate and candid correspondence that has been culled from the Library of Congress to produce “Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary,” which PublicAffairs is to publish next month....
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He huffed about the defense establishment that produced over-reaching military advice about Vietnam, fretted about making enough money, objected to being branded a neoconservative, never recovered from being misunderstood or misrepresented for suggesting that the rhetoric of race would benefit from “benign neglect” and, after Watergate, expressed profound misgivings about having gone to work for President Richard M. Nixon.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, adviser to three presidents, a four-term United States senator from New York and a prolific author, posthumously reveals his insights into personalities and public policy in thousands of pages of intimate and candid correspondence that has been culled from the Library of Congress to produce “Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary,” which PublicAffairs is to publish next month....