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...foreign affairs, says Moynihan, there is something almost Orwellian about the transformation of the word liberal to mean the opposite of what it meant a decade or so ago. John Kennedy's inaugural address, which declared that the U.S. would defend freedom around the globe, was celebrated at the time. Now liberals oppose intervention...
Professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, back at Harvard from his job as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, stretched his long legs down the tavern booth. His two cheeseburgers and draft beer sat untouched in front of him. He was, with characteristic gusto, into his subject. "These goddam elitist liberals," he said, "almost succeeded in running the workingman out of the Democratic Party." He spotted a passing bus through the window and began pumping his finger toward it. "They made that bus driver out there feel illiberal; they turned him into a caricature...
...Liberals make sure to insulate themselves from all these drastic social changes," he went on, "but they expect the masses to make them work. It's so intolerant. In their eyes, if you're not a cultural liberal, then you're not a political liberal." Moynihan himself once had liberal credentials but now is considered something of a renegade...
...Retreat. It is not an easy time to be a liberal. The criticism, like Pat Moynihan's, is fierce. Today liberals are in retreat, or, as Social Scientist Moynihan puts it, fading back into the culture. They are unmoored and fragmented, a variegated group that has traditionally coalesced around a strong leader and a compelling cause-and now has neither. None of the presidential candidates stirs them the way past heroes like Adlai Stevenson or Eugene McCarthy did. No issue even faintly matches the emotion of their stand against the Viet Nam War. On top of that, they...
...foreign policy, he flatly opposes covert action by the CIA, though he does not mind "having spies in the Kremlin, in the P.L.O., and in the Portuguese army. We need a professional CIA and we should give back its dignity." He admires Pat Moynihan's tough approach to the Third World. He would focus foreign policy on a "few geographical areas that are important to our national interest and not get involved in brushfire wars." He advocates substantial cuts in the defense budget and wants a "lean and efficient" military...