Word: moynihans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleased to learn that Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is scheduled to lecture at the Kennedy School in April. There are some urgent questions regarding the integrity of the legislative process which I hope he will address...
...June, 1981, Senator Moynihan introduced a resolution in the Senate which provided that no bill could be sent to the House or to the President which a majority of Senators present and voting "cannot attest to having read." Mr. Moynihan assured his colleagues that the resolution was not in just, though it is unlikely he expected it to be adopted...
...White House blamed the manual on a single, "lowlevel" contract operative, identified pseudonymously as John Kirkpatrick. The still secret inspector general's report apparently suggested that Kirkpatrick resign, two employees be suspended without pay and three others receive formal letters of reprimand. New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan compared the disciplinary measures with canceling "weekend privileges for a month...
...technology has increasingly enabled global adversaries to sort through vast amounts of airborne telebabble in search of key words and phrases, ordinary telecommunications have become a priceless source of intelligence for the Soviet Union and, possibly, other nations. Says New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Vice Chairman of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence: "The targets of Soviet interception of telephone communications now include our businesses, our banks, our brokerage houses, as frequently as our Government agencies . . . Private communications of all sorts have been violated, and on a scale that dwarfs any previous surveillance effort by friend...
...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...