Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marvin Esch (R): the Democrat seemed a shoo-in until the Detroit News published tapes about Riegle's trysts with a staff member. The race is a squeaker. MISSOURI. Warren Hearnes (D) v. John Danforth (R): ex-Governor Hearnes bears many political scars. NEW YORK. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D) v. Incumbent James Buckley (R-Conservative): the flamboyant Pat leads but the gap is narrowing. PENNSYLVANIA. William Green (D) v. H. John Heinz III (R): the race is still very close...
...Moynihan scrupulously avoided mention of the previous night's victory in his anecdote-filled, stream-of-consciousness lecture, and yelled loudly, pounding on the table in front of him, when a New York television film crew attempted to enter the classroom...
Among the well-wishers in attendance was James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, who sat in the next-to-last row during Moynihan's lecture--in which he was mentioned several times. Wilson said he came to Moynihan's lecture because he "wanted to congratulate" Moynihan. "I thought I should come here to see him," he said...
Wilson followed Moynihan home after the lecture, in an entourage that included a New York Times reporter who shouted loud obscenities when she became tangled in a camera crew's cables, and an indeterminate number of other correspondents, each clamoring for a word with the Senator-elect...
...Moynihan said he will continue to shuttle between New York and Boston "until the end of the lecture system" in January, when his lectures will begin appearing in the Congressional Record...