Word: moynihans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackson urged, in vain, that Secretary of State Vance should post! pone his trip to Geneva for a SALT conference with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (see following story), lest the willingness to continue negotiations be interpreted as "the wrong signal at the wrong time." His fellow Senator Daniel Moynihan said that "to send Vance to Geneva is to participate in the butchery now going on in the Soviet Union." A senior White House official declared: "We're in a bit of a pushing match and we'll have to push it out with them...
Some believe the Bakke decision will make it easier for blacks and whites to work together on affirmative action. Says New York Senator Pat Moynihan: "A bureaucracy that says, 'White teachers get in this line and blacks in this line,' threatens to break up the coalition that worked for affirmative action in the first place. The Bakke decision gets us back into a sensible mainstream idea of what affirmative action should be. Maybe now we can put the coalition back together...
Professor Benjamin Vandegrift, of Washington and Lee, sees a whole new breed of middle-management executives who have graduated from the campus activism of the '60s and are now moving into politics to preserve their dreams. New York's Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is almost poetic on the subject of the entrepreneurial ethos. "The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people," he says. "They were founded by people with extraordinary energy, intelligence, ambition, aggressiveness. All those factors go into the primordial capitalist urge." M.I.T. Professor Louis Banks takes the next step...
...cracks down, the Administration is adding to the problem. Carter has proposed a $1.5 billion program to extend college student aid to cover most of the nation's middle-class families. The aim of the plan is to head off a bill proposed by Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Bob Packwood that would allow parents to deduct up to $500 from their income tax for every child they had in college or private school. The White House claims that the credit would cost the Government too much in lost revenues and would benefit the rich as well as the poor...
...money regardless of financial need, which could create a separate bureaucracy to administer the tax credits, and may cut into existing financial aid support that benefits poorer families. In the Senate, meanwhile, debate centers over a similar bill introduced by Sen. Robert Packwood (R-Ore.) and Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan...