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...those who fear that the President will resume his religious crusade after the election, the Democratic Senator from New York had words of reassurance. "I do not think that Ronald Reagan wants to establish a state church," reasoned Daniel Moynihan. "It would require him to attend services more often than he is disposed to do." Moynihan was perhaps trying to make sure that charges of hypocrisy in the current debate do not remain lodged exclusively with liberals. His little witticism, however, points up an important fact: in the U.S. one can hardly speak seriously of the idea of established religion...
...members of the drafting committee, a bare majority-eight-were Mondale supporters. They dutifully obeyed the commands of a rumpled, chain-smoking Mondale operative, Paul Tully, who hovered about the drafting table, flashing signals like a base coach. At one point, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Mondale backer, strayed by voting for a Hart-proposed tax-reform measure that Moynihan had co-sponsored in the Senate. Tully, a former Yale football tackle, lumbered over from his sideline post and put his arm on the Senator's shoulder. Sheepishly, Moynihan switched his vote...
...Daniel P. Moynihan...
Practically a generation has passed since that well-intended policy paper, the notorious "Moynihan Report," prompted an angry dispute over the nature of the modern American black family. The report is still persuasive, yet the touchy issues it raised were until recently judged almost unfit for public debate. Now, however, the precariousness of so many black families has become a central concern of black leaders. Unstable and ill-formed families are, says Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, "a threat to the future of black people without equal." Last week a national black sorority, Delta...
...statistical evidence of the "crumbling" family has grown more alarming in the years since Moynihan's depiction. Today a majority (55%) of black children are born to unmarried, often teen-age mothers; in 1965 only 26% of non white new-borns were illegitimate. Half of all black children have no father at home, and the median income of these single-mother households is only $7,458. The incidence of divorce among black couples is twice that among whites. One out of twelve black children lives with neither parent...