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...know I'm there." That was the pitch for Daniel Patrick Moynihan's TV spots, and it is the campaign pledge most certain to be kept. Making his presence felt has never been a problem for the blustery onetime bartender who lived in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, made his way to Harvard, became one of the nation's leading urbanologists, served four Presidents, and fulminated against the Arabs and the Third World as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Democrat Moynihan won over softspoken, engaging Republican-Conservative James Buckley, who leaves the Senate...
...York is hospitable ground for Moynihan's New Deal-ish stands on unemployment, national health insurance and other social legislation. Buckley was never able to shake his image as a far right winger so wedded to an anti-Government philosophy that he even opposed federal aid to financially strapped New York City in the early stages of its fiscal crisis...
...Moynihan-with his long forelock that seems forever (and designedly) askew, his cherubic face, well-upholstered 6 ft. 4 in. frame and congenital inability to resist controversy-he can be counted upon to enliven the Senate with rhetorical flourishes worthy of such famous orators as Daniel Webster or even Everett Dirksen...
...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 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...