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Despite his own relatively modest background, Moynihan says the United States during the Depression era was still a “land of large opportunity...
...Moynihan excelled academically at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem and matriculated at New York’s City College after graduation...
After his active-duty years, Moynihan cultivated his interest in politics, which had begun with a political science class in high school, by working on the staff of New York Governor Averell Harriman in the late 1950s...
...watershed study, which sustained criticism from civil rights activists because they felt it blamed blacks themselves for black poverty, became known as the “Moynihan Report” and threw the relatively unknown government official into the limelight for the first time...
...Warren B. Rudman (R-N.H.) expresses a similar sentiment, despite having sat on the other side of the aisle when both he and Moynihan were senators...