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...resolute emphasis on jobs should enhance the bill's prospects. New York Senator -Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who devised Richard Nixon's ill-fated Family Assistance Plan, recalls that any attempt to put welfare recipients-especially mothers-to work was then denounced as "slavefare." Today, Moynihan thinks, no major group exists to raise an automatic outcry against work. He credits the women's movement with changing attitudes. "Work is no longer considered to be a form of punishment as applied to women. A liberal constituency no longer finds work unattractive." Thus liberals might go along with the traditional...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D.C.L., New York Senator...
...another political ring last week. It was some chapeau: a black straw garden-party number. Likewise, it was some ring: the race for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City. No one was exactly surprised at Bella's decision. The onetime Congresswoman, loser to Daniel Patrick Moynihan for a Democratic nomination in last year's U.S. Senate race, had been announcing her announcement for weeks. Still, when she decided to make the toss official, Bella, 56, announced again, with characteristic vigor. "I'm rarin' to go," she declared to supporters at her kickoff rally...
Recent commencement speakers included Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) in 1976 and Ralph Ellison, a black American writer...
...described as "the toughest in the country, maybe in the world." Her two days on campus as a visiting fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government were one of her few public outings since she lost the New York Senate primary race to Harvard Professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan last September. As she put it, "Harvard's loss was my loss...