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Daniel Patrick Moynihan doesn’t exactly fit the profile of a bully...
...when he was younger, growing up in New York City, Moynihan used to augment his income by picking on smaller, weaker newspaper boys—or so onlookers thought...
...teenaged Moynihan devised a ploy in which his younger and smaller brother, Mike, would go into Manhattan pubs trying to sell newspapers...
...Sometimes he’d go in, and I’d show up a few minutes later,” the elder Moynihan brother recalls. “I’d say, ‘Hey this is my beat! Get the hell out of here!’ Sometimes I’d knock his papers to the floor and walk out. And a few more people would feel sorry and buy newspapers from my brother...
...father left the family when Moynihan was about 10 years old. And the financial instability of his family prompted him to spend much of his time trying to earn money. He worked on the docks, as a stockboy at a department store and on a suburban farm, in addition to a number of other odd jobs...