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Topic: Moynihan’s Moment: New Book Traces
Late Senator’s Great Zionist Romance |
Moynihan’s Moment: New Book Traces
Late Senator’s Great Zionist Romance
New York Observer, by Marty Peretz
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Posted By:drive, 2/6/2013 2:28:27 PM
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| Not all of America’s most eminent public personae are memorialized in public places. But when Pennsylvania Station is finally brought into the contemporary age, Daniel Patrick Moynihan will be, having been so honored in at least two other locations. Pat was still alive but barely out of office when the first of these buildings, the 27-story Moynihan Courthouse at Foley Square (which was named for “Big Tom” Foley, a Tammany Hall pol), was dedicated in his name. (Senior citizens among The Observer’s readers may recall that this is where the Smith Act prosecution of the Communist
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Caljeepgirl, 2/6/2013 2:47:47 PM (No. 9162155)
Nice. Moynihan was my all-time favorite Democrat!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 2/6/2013 2:58:43 PM (No. 9162182)
He talked a good game. He saw the flaws in the Democrats´ philosophy and brought their attention to them. But he always voted the party line and never failed to support whatever it did.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 2/6/2013 3:25:45 PM (No. 9162227)
#2 is correct.
When the walls were falling down on Bill Clinton, Moynihan said - investigate Bill Clinton, and if he did it, impeach and remove him.
But when it was time to vote in the U.S. Senate for Clinton´s removal, Moynihan voted with the rest of the cowardly democrats,not guilty, without looking at the evidence which was stored in a room in the Capitol building.
And the evidence was never brought before the full senate, thanks to the quisling Trent Lott as well as Rick Santorum.
No one looked, no one testified, and Bill Clinton walked...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Judith, 2/6/2013 4:18:08 PM (No. 9162326)
Don´t forget, he gave us hillary. Remember them wandering around his grounds as he placed his approval on her? Wasn´t that a moving gesture?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 2/6/2013 4:29:34 PM (No. 9162355)
#3 and #4 - agree wholeheartedly. His endorsement of Hillary was a big help to her.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
obdurate, 2/6/2013 6:27:47 PM (No. 9162506)
Re#1, mine also.
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