Word: moynihanized
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...President Bill Clinton may have "defined deviance downward," as Pat Moynihan said, or he may turn out to have defined tolerance upward. But one thing the historians will not argue about is that he raised our expectations of what the president of the United States should do for our eyelids...
...MOYNIHAN: I think we ought to leave on that...
...MOYNIHAN: It has never been intellectual...
...KERREY to MOYNIHAN: Do you favor abolishing...
...MOYNIHAN: I don't know what the point is of saying that because it won't happen but, my God, I would like to bring some discipline to them. The discipline of saying, open up. Because of its mode of operation, the CIA pointedly missed the collapse of the Soviet Union...