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...Moynihan is a man with great intellect and great humor and is one of the most profound thinkers on American public policy in this generation,” he says...
...Mansfield notes, Moynihan became the first Harvard professor since John Quincy Adams, Class of 1787, to run for the senate while still a member of the Faculty...
...present day, though, Moynihan denies that the campaign had any effect on his role as a member of the Faculty...
...Moynihan became an eminent figure in the Senate because of his longevity in an institution that values seniority. He served as both chair and, later, ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee. But he caught flak for his aloofness and isolation from other senators...
...Moynihan is the only person in American history to have cabinet or sub-cabinet positions under four presidents—John F. Kennedy ’40, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford—an achievement he cites as his proudest accomplishment in a career of public service spanning nearly half-a-century...