Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927 - 2003) was a U.S. Democratic Senator from New York (1977 - 2001), and he was married to Elizabeth B. Moynihan.
He was a Honorary Co-Chairman of the Afghanistan Relief Committee and a director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
In 1989 he was on the Advisory Board for the Coalition for a Democratic Majority.
- Winner of the 2002 Cosmos Club Award [1]
- Former Board of Overseers, Fletcher School [2]
Background
He was "born in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Okla., March 16, 1927; attended the public and parochial schools of New York City; attended City College of New York 1943; graduated, Tufts University, Medford, Mass., 1948; received graduate and law degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 1949, 1961, 1968; studied as a Fulbright fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science 1950-1951; served in the United States Navy 1944-1947; Navy reserve 1947-1966; assistant and secretary to New York Governor W. Averell Harriman 1955-1958; member, New York State Tenure Commission 1959-1960; director, Syracuse University’s New York State Government Research Project 1959-1961; director, Joint Center for Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University 1966-1969; author;"
He "held cabinet or sub-cabinet positions under Presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford 1961-1976; Ambassador to India 1973-1975; United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1975-1976; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1976; reelected in 1982, 1988, and 1994 and served from January 3, 1977, to January 3, 2001; was not a candidate for reelection in 2000; chairman, Committee on the Environment and Public Works (One Hundred Second and One Hundred Third Congresses); Committee on Finance (One Hundred Third Congress); awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on August 9, 2000; professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School 2001; senior scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 2001-2003; died of complications from a ruptured appendix on March 26, 2003; interment at Arlington National Cemetery." [3]
More background
"For his part, Kemble has been a neo-con insider since the 1960s, but in 1978-79, he worked directly with Cheney's Iraq warriors—Abram Shulsky of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, Elliott Abrams of the National Security Council, and Gary Schmitt of the Project for a New American Century—when they were all on the staff of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) By the 1980s, Kemble was deeply involved in the Project Democracy operations of Ollie North, and the Iran-Contra network that ran a covert gun- and drug-running operation out of the White House." [1]
"According to Hadar the major figures of the movement were initially people like Irving Kristol, later contributor to the Wall Street Journal; Norman Podhoretz, the present editor of Commentary—a bastion of neoconservatism—Democratic Party activist, Ben Wattenberg; Midge Dector, wife of Podhoretz, who, with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, served as officers of Committee for the Free World. This neo-con core was later joined by other Cold Warriors and pro-Israeli advocates, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Walt and Eugene Rostow, Richard Perle, Elliot Abrams (Podhoretz’s son-in-law), Kenneth Adelman, Max Kampelman (aide to Senator Hubert Humphrey), and, of course, Michael Ledeen. (A good number of them in the Bush/Cheney team are reincarnates of the Reagan administration.)" [2]
References
- ↑ Cosmos Club Award Recipients, Cosmos Club Foundation, accessed August 27, 2008.
- ↑ 2001 Annual Report, Fletcher School, accessed February 23, 2010.
- ↑ Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed June 2008.
Related
External links
- Michele Steinberg, "Missing Link: How Right-Wing Neo-Cons Created `Democratic Leadership Council'", Executive Intelligence Review, July 18, 2003.
- John Ehrman, "The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994", Yale University Press, 1995. (The author devotes a substantial chapter to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the first neocon to move from academia to politics and an unabashed defender of liberal democracy.)
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan Interview, PBS, accessed June 2008.
