Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carries his own precipice around with him under his arm." With that somewhat surrealistic metaphor, an old friend describes Daniel Patrick Moynihan's habit of living close to the edge of trouble through his gift for overstatement and overreaction. But often the statements and reactions are deliberate. When a classified cable from Moynihan blasting the State Department surfaced in the press last week, it looked like the latest gambit in the intrigue between Moynihan and Henry Kissinger...
Unlike many independently wealthy ambassadors, Moynihan lives entirely off his $44,600 U.N. salary. The Moynihans are provided with the Waldorf suite, a car and a driver. But their only servant is Hives, a life-sized papier-mache butler who stands at the door of the apartment wearing the castaway clothes of a warm-blooded English butler who once worked for them. The figure is the creation of their son Tim. With all three children away at school, Hives and a wire-haired fox terrier named...
Dooley are the only other live-in members of the Moynihan family. At home, there is a casual, rumpled air about the man. In public, he wears meticulously tailored suits, and his voice acquires a reserved, almost harrumphing Tory tone...
...both incarnations, he occasionally indulges a well-cultivated taste for Dubonnet, Scotch, brandy, port or stout. Even Moynihan's critics concede that his unfailing Irish wit and cheer make him a good man to take on a pub crawl...
...Moynihan's spreading popularity has inevitably given rise to speculation that he may run for public office, and he is reportedly being strongly urged by supporters to seek the Democratic nomination for the New York Senate seat now held by Republican Senator James Buckley. But Moynihan has denied any intention of running, and he removed his name last week from the ballot for the Democratic primary in Massachusetts...