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Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a diplomat and scholar whose career included stints teaching government at Harvard and serving as a New York senator, died in Washington, D.C., March 26 of complications of an appendectomy...
...Godkin Lectures are held each year in memory of former political journalist Edwin Godkin. The lecture series began in 1903, and past speakers, selected by Kennedy School professors, have included Adlai Stevenson, Nelson Rockefeller and the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Paul Samuelson, a Nobel-prize winning economist and Summers’ uncle, gave the lecture...
...Godkin Lectures, in memory of former political journalist Edwin Godkin, began in 1903. Past speakers, selected by Kennedy School professors, have included Adlai Stevenson, Nelson Rockefeller and the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Paul Samuelson, a Nobel-prize winning economist and Summers’ uncle, gave the lecture...
...Moynihan was an inconvenient man. He managed to infuriate everyone sooner or later. He was a Harvard professor who saw himself as the last vestige of Tammany Hall, a machine politician without a machine but with an ancient mandate to care for working stiffs, widows and orphans. He believed ethnicity was a more potent predictor of political behavior than social class. He outraged liberals by insisting that too many black children were being raised without fathers; he outraged conservatives by opposing Clinton's welfare reform because he didn't want to see those children hurt. He was an avid patriot...