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Several years ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan suggested that Americans were "defining deviancy down," arguing that out-of-wedlock births, for example, had reached such epidemic proportions that Americans had lowered the threshold of acceptable moral behavior. When it comes to the highest office in the land, voters have defined the presidency down. Richard Nixon's crimes, John Kennedy's infidelities, Lyndon Johnson's ballot rigging, Ronald Reagan's and George Bush's involvement in Iran-contra--these disclosures have so eroded the moral capital of the highest job in the land that Americans expect less from the man who holds...
Metros says she's served "lots of Kennedys" and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), a former Harvard professor...
William P. Moynihan '00 reports that a student named "[Edidiong N.] Ikpe '00 said it is possible [Janice] George was mentally unstable." ("Students Befriend a Fraud," news story, Sept. 24). What does mental instability have to do with deception? It is more likely that a psychologist would deceive someone. Attributing mental illness is an effective way to discredit someone as Ikpe has done...
Bozzotto says he hopes the Democratic party can remold itself around the ideals of Kennedy and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
SENATOR DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Thirty years of erudition on poverty shoved aside in what he calls "welfare repeal...