Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moynihan told his cheering supporters, many of them sporting shamrock-covered green hats, that he had "run a campaign based on the issues...
...fought as liberals, we fought as Democrats, and we won," Moynihan said...
Some 400 people waited patiently in Moynihan headquarters in midtown Manhattan last night, listening to a band play Irish folk tunes, watching returns on any one of ten scattered televisions and sipping 50-cent-a-can beers...
Although Buckley was trailing throughout the evening, and most television stations had predicted Moynihan the winner by 9:15 p.m., only fifteen minutes after the New York polls closed, Buckley did not concede defeat until almost two hours later...
...incumbent told a large but quiet gathering at the New York Waldorf Astoria hotel ballroom, "I wish Daniel Patrick Moynihan well, because I wish New York well." Buckley said he would "continue fighting for the conservative cause...