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Down below, the lions stalked one another, plainly sobered by the moment but relishing their time in the spotlight. In the Senate the towering Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York stood in the back row in brown suede shoes to plead his case. Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, not so long ago a wild political youngster, rose as a silver-haired patriarch. Near him, Iowa's Tom Harkin, popping pills to settle an unruly stomach, his hair a little too long for a true corn-belt troubadour, watched and waited to gather up some of the moment's somber glory. History...
Even now, House Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) told President Bush not to reconvene Congress because representatives might not support military action. "Maybe it was too much to ask with the gridlock of the budget and on the eve of the election," Senator Daniel P. Moynihan told the New York Times, commenting on the failure of Congress to request a formal meeting with the Bush administration to discuss Gulf policy...
...must understand that Americans are a warrior nation," Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan told a group of Arab leaders in early September, one month into the Middle East crisis. He said this proudly, and he may, without thinking through the ugly implications, have told the truth. In many ways, in outlook and behavior the U.S. has begun to act like a primitive warrior culture...
...latest harbingers of hard times ahead and the inattention to the country's most corrosive problems: a national debt of $3 trillion, 30 million citizens who live in abject poverty, the highest homicide rate in the industrialized world and disgracefully failing schools. Such problems, says Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, are the real measure of what fighting the cold war cost the U.S. "For half a century we put all our best energies and best minds into the issues of the cold war, just as now in the gulf we are putting them into the first post-cold war crisis...
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN...