Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Senator Pat Moynihan introduced his fellow New Yorker as a man by whom the CIA "will be well served," the slender, bespectacled Sorensen took over. Looking grim and even more somber than usual, he read a vigorous ten-page rebuttal of what he called "scurrilous and personal attacks." When he had finished, he picked up another piece of paper and began reading from it. "It is now clear," he said, "that a substantial portion of the U.S. Senate and the intelligence community is not yet ready to accept as director of Central Intelligence an outsider who believes...
...Communist tint in 1944, he and other union leaders created the rival Liberal Party. The actual vote on the Liberal line was never large, but it was big enough to sway many elections. Republicans such as John Lindsay and Democrats Averell Harriman, Robert Wagner, John Kennedy, Daniel Moynihan and Jimmy Carter were all grateful recipients of Liberal endorsement. Rose liked to claim that his party existed only to advance good government, but he once acknowledged: "Frequently, when you do what is right, it turns out to be also very clever...
Within several days, Bok names Daniel Patrick Moynihan to replace Tosteson as head of the Med School...
Henry Rosovsky announces his resignation as dean of the Faculty, effective June 30, 1978. President Bok announces that Daniel Patrick Moynihan will replace Chief Gorski, Deer Island 7078941, immediately and that the Senator will fill Rosovsky's place beginning in July...
...explanation of Moynihan's rather unusual service, Bok says, "I don't think it would be fair to anyone--especially to minority groups and women--for me to appoint anyone but the most qualified person to this or any other job. That's why I prefer to stand with...